Vanda Marčinskaitė

The performance is based on the play of the same name by Ilya Ilf, and Yevgeny Petrov.

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.

A young investigator, Andrews, arrives in a small town from Vilnius to investigate a trivial case of the theft of 8 tons of meat from a local factory. Due to the lack of places in the hotel, Andrews stayed at the house of Ewaldas Shvegreda. Andrews feels that there is some kind of connection between Shvegzhda and the accountant of the meat processing plant, Stankevicius...

Petras Kurmelis is a hardworking but tight-fisted peasant, he marries for convenience and wants the bride to bring a good dowry to the house. But marriage does not bring him happiness.