A woman goes into labor and her husband is not able to leave work. She gives birth to a baby boy. Before the husband arrives, she takes a baby girl un...
The youngest son starts being able to walk again, however, becomes bullied leading him to fight another boy. Alenka learns some heartbreaking news, le...
Alenka continues to pursue acting. With Alesha's wedding coming up, she learns she must head back to the village. Alesha takes in a young boy and help...
Alenka is met with heartbreak again by the same man of when she was young. On her way home she catches Varvara and Stepka. The mother admits that Varv...
Stepka begins to associate with a group of robbers. Alenka threatens to leave her man if he does not cast her in the play. Ignat's wife dies while giv...
Vavara is beaten by her new husband. He sends her to the city to sell meet, where Stepka spots her. They have an emotional reunion, where Varvara tell...
Varvara sends her husband off to war. The boy that Alesha and his wife want to adopt has run away, or so it seems. There is another death in the famil...
It is time for Alesha's wife to send him off for the war, but he is met with a surprise she is coming with him. Stepka is staying with his grandfather...
Alenka learns that Ignat's wife has died, and goes to see Ignat's daughter. She brings some terrible news home to Varvara. Alenka believes that Varvar...
Stepka has an emotional reunion with his father, for the first time since he ran away, however, the meeting ends abruptly. Lilya, Alesha's wife, watch...
Stepka is put in a Nazi prison camp and is fighting severe starvation. An old woman is sheltering Lilya. Alenka continues to read poetry to wound vict...
Lilya is in the hospital and continues to have terrible tremors. Stepka and his friend discover a home, and the woman who lives there takes them in. H...
Alesha finds his way home to Lilya, and discovers the news of their son. Alenka is finally together with Ignat, however, her husband suspects that she...
Lilya finally opens up to Alesha about the brutal treatment she got from the Germans. The priest is murdered in the middle of the night, by a man that...
Lilya must undergo emergency surgery, even though she has previously refused. Stepka learns that he is being released early. Alenka goes to collect he...
Lily finally acknowledges that she is seriously ill, and agrees to Alesha's requests for surgeries, however, it ends tragically. Alenka's husband is c...
