K. Donelaitis' epic "Metai", a multi-layered work. It reveals the characters, relationships and behaviour of the inhabitants of 18th century Lithuania Minor, their work, household details, drawings of nature, descriptions of national costumes...
The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.