[1] The story has been written in the mountain village Nyzhniy Bereziv.
[2] The events of the story take place in the early 1920s, in a Hutsul village on the Polish-Romanian border in Pokuttia.
Olga, a priest’s daughter, before her father died, makes him promise to marry his friend Martyn Pogodniak, a Polish officer of the local border outpost.
However, later she falls in love with the «noble robber» Ivan Semeniuk.
Over time they realize that they couldn't live without each other and decide to escape but the robber’s wife Marichka snitches on them to the officer.