The rich peasant Solopii Cherevyk goes to the Sorochyntsi fair to sell wheat. His quarrelsome wife Khivria and daughters Paraska, Horpyna and Motria go with him. At the fair, Paraska meets a guy named Hrytsko and falls in love with him. But her stepmother Khivria is against their wedding. In parallel, the events related to the mysterious story about the "red scroll" develop.
Heorhii Khostikoiev
as Hrytsko
Надія Мейхер
as Paraska
Sofiya Rotaru
as gypsy
Анатолій Дяченко
as Solopii Cherevyk
Юрий Гальцев
as priest
Valeriy Meladze
as devil
Андрей Данилко
as Khivria
Андрей Федорцов
as moskal
Irina Bilyk
as foreign singer
Виктор Цекало
as jewish tavern-keeper
Василь Баша
as cossack
Володимир Задніпровський
as moscow merchant
