This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
Gypsies steal a large shipment of drugs worth $40,000,000 from the mafia and kill a drug courier. In response, the bandits kidnap the daughter of the gypsy baron Alan, little Rose, and forcibly put her on a needle. Alan's revenge is inevitable and merciless. But will he be able to get to the godfather of the drug syndicate Victor.
