About the life and customs of the pre-war Lithuanian bourgeoisie in the seaside resort of Palanga.
A five part mini-series based on the novel by the same name.
The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...
