of the feeling that I'm always smiling
and looking you in the eyes.
I'd rather drive a truck or a tractor.
No offense, you're a good man,
I'm just lacking something.
Is it a concert?
- A competition.
How much are you lacking?
About forty percent.
Why are you alone?
Did you go to Sosnovka?
Yes, Your Honor.
Been to Sosnovka, brought the foreman.
No need to put the hand to the empty head.
Honey, what are trying to show?
You'll become a prosecutor in your time.
You'll go on a vacation to the seaside,
meet a handsome young lawyer.
And up the white stairs you will go straight to heaven ...
Are your shoes the right size?
No, but I have another problem.
My feet sweat a lot. Such a nuisance.
Allow me to shake off the ash.
Don't take it close to heart, Egor.
Driving a tractor is not worse, it's even better.
They get a lot of money.
I am not upset.
Luba will come soon, right?
She should.
They are turning over the milk.
When she's finished she'll come home.
Egor, be gentle with her.
She's our late child. Parents' hearts ache the most
for the late child.
When you have your own children,
you'll remember my words.
She's a good girl, very kind, but somehow,
always unlucky.
First, this alcoholic came around, so we could not
get rid of him.
These drunkards are a menace.
I'd put them all to jail.
Each would get five years, in high security.
Why to jail?
Why not?
Look who's here. I thought you'd only be finished
by night, and you're already at home. Why so soon?
Did Peter come back too?
He does not want to drive the chairman.
- Why?
Don't blame him. He explained why.
He get carsick in a sedan.
He wants to drive a tractor. That's even better.
You would give some advice! He'd come home clean.
Now he'll be coming back dirty.
How is it better?
This is what's better.
- You wish.
I wish, and maybe I'm right.
Luba, look, is he calling for you?
Where are they going?
Where did they go?
- To Sosnovka.
Why?
- For some reason.
Why didn't you ask the reason?
Gave away your truck...
So what?
- Nothing.
Peter, you're a real blockhead sometimes.
Your sister is being driven away somewhere,
and you don't even care.
He'll bring her back, what else.
Where did they go?
- To Sosnovka.
Why?
- For some reason.
Why didn't you find out?
- You go and find out.
Ah, to hell with you, you're just ...
- What? Same as you.
There lives an old woman called Kudeliha.
How do you know?
- I should know, I visited Sosnovka today.
The point is, a friend asked me to inquire about
this old woman.
And why does he need it?
- She's some kind of a relative, maybe an aunt.
Let's do like this: we'll drive up,
but you go in first.
No, let's go in together, but you should
ask all the questions.
My sons died.
The first one died in the battle near Lvov,
the second one fought for two years.
I get a pension for the first one.
The one who was killed first.
I was getting twenty rubles.
Twenty-one and forty cents.
But now they reduced my pension.
Village committee informed the social security
that my estate was too big.
Twenty-seven hectares.
But I never had so much, and no one in the
collective farm had so much.
So I went there and asked:
'What are you doing?'
He said: 'Why did I receive the information
that your estate is so big?'
Then he said: 'We made a mistake'.
I said: 'If you made a mistake, you have to correct it.'
'Your mistake is my tears.'
He said: 'What are your tears?'
Grandma, I also wanted to ask about your sons.
Sons ... I only have one son left.
Three died.
How long ago did you see him?
- Long ago.
How long?
- I've been alone for eighteen years.
Yes, right. Alone for eighteen years.
Yes. Such is my suffering.
And you don't know where he is and how he is...
- I don't know.
I looked him up, applied for a search.
Then I went to the village commitee and they told me:
'Wait, he must be alive and healthy.'
But he did not show up.
Twenty years - nothing.
- Twenty