Based on the work of Torgni Lindgren's Bumblebee Honey.

The two Hutsul brothers always divided everything into two: mother, toys, right to be called the best, one woman, one son. But there was an event in their life after which they had not spoken for 40 years. In their provincial town a writer arrives to read a lecture about the saints and the wicked at a local monastery. Among the listeners is a grandfather named Wojtko. The writer gradually enters Voitko's life and meets his brother. It becomes a link between two brothers whose meaning of life lies in the confrontation: one who will live longer and will not comfort the other with his death.