This “naive” film, as the author himself calls it, is a kind of confession of a young man.
The daily life of a provincial Lithuanian town in the 1960s. From preparations for two early summer events, dramas emerge in the life of each of the characters, who are forced to deal with conundrums.
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...