Tetyana Mahar

On New Year's Eve, many people reflect on the results of their lives. The hustle and bustle of preparing a festive feast distracts, but not everyone. The heroine of the film, a young beautiful woman, reflecting on what the past year has brought, realizes that except for disappointments and resentments in her life nothing happened. And then she decides to leave her husband.

In the 17th century, in a Cossack village near Chyhyryn on Christmas Eve, Halya, the daughter of centurion Khoma Kychatyi, is looking for a matchmaker from a young Cossack Nazar Stodolya, whom she loves. But her father is ready to give her in marriage to a rich colonel. So, when the colonel's matchmakers come, he tries to deceive his daughter with the help of Stekha, his keywoman, in order to get her consent.