The rich and grasping peasant Enya likes the beautiful Tsveta. He is engaged to her with the consent of his elder brother Ivan and his wife Ana. Stanka is a sick, hunchbacked girl, but her father is the richest man in the village. Stanka is secretly in love with Enya. Enyu is obsessed with thoughts about the earth.

Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.