Vasylia will grow up to be a maiden to be married off, as many other girls in the city. But she is desensitized by loss and sees no meaning in that future, or any future at all. She is living to live, with no meaning in mind. Only when she meets someone who is equally alike as different to her does she start to wonder how the world has brought two different people to the same point. With a new deal, her life has a little more excitement, and she finally begins to learn.