Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Old Abraham Bentley hid the remainder of the family fortune at one end of a rope he arranged in the barn - the noose at the other end is in plain sight. He receives his prodigal son, Luke, with a mixture of obvious joy and of inarticulate urgings for him to hang himself.
The film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new times dictate new conditions, new values emerge, and loyalty to old ideals is doomed...
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