The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.

Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky.

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.