Kirill Velev, a partisan and communist, committed suicide after the failure of an anti-fascist underground group. It happened in the forty-fourth. And in 1951, the stubborn facts closed in an inexorable chain and testified: the commander of the partisan group Walter was given to the Gestapovs by Kirill Velev. This is the verdict of the people's tribunal, not subject to appeal. The accused did not appear at the trial.

A Bulgarian village before the First World War. The young and ambitious farmer Enyo loves the beautiful but poor Tsveta. His brother and his wife arrange their engagement. The hunchback girl Stanka, daughter of the richest man in the village, is in love with Enyo. Because of her father's lands Enyo decides to end his engagement with Tsveta and starts building up his farm.