Adaptation of the play by Mykhailo Starytskyi. The beautiful widow's daughter Marusia is in love with perhaps the best Cossack in the village, Hrytsko Shandura, who reciprocates her feelings. However, this love is hindered by the young man Khoma, who is determined to separate the lovers so that he can marry the beautiful girl himself.

A television performance based on the play by R. Sheridan, presented by the National Academic Theatre of Russian Drama named after L. Ukrainka (Kyiv).