Two lovers cannot be together—the girl’s authoritarian father refuses to approve the marriage. When the young man kills him, a third figure—the couple’s childhood best friend—rushes to take revenge. He is faced with a difficult choice.
While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.
Krestan Serbin, a 64-year-old Sorbian farm-worker, considers himself non-political. He owns a few acres, a few pigs and a cow, and intends to pass all this on to his daughter Lena.
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself.