Bocca and Paglia meet by chance. The meeting of these restless, mentally lonely people becomes a turning point for them. Yesterday, still resigned to the sad results of their lives, today they rebelled, deciding to run away... To run away from hateful everyday life, from sad thoughts, the selfishness of others, to run away from themselves. With the courage of boys, they develop a secret plan. Their motto is independence, freedom!
The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...
The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.
A story of an impish devil who used to be an angel but got tired of singing Hosannah and so was condemned to live on earth. From his home in a windmill, he pursues love and happiness in a hilarious and sometimes tragic turmoil that affects the whole countryside.