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Stoyan and Lilyana are in love. He is poor shepherd and she is a daughter of the village major who has chosen Trichko, the son of the wealthy man, to be his future son-in-law. One day gypsies pitch the camp near the village. Stoyan becomes infatuated with the beautiful gypsy woman Gyula, and when the caravan people leave he joins them. Lilyana cannot bear being ridiculed by the whole village and jump from a high rock. After some time, jilted by Gyula, Stoyan recalls his first love and returns to the village. There he learned what has happened and goes to the rock. Drown by the vision of Lilyana, he falls into the void.

The shepherd Goran and Sevdana are in love. Her father, Old Stanko, gets wind of this and decides to punish the shepherd. Kancho is also in love with Sevdana and looks for opportunity to get rid of Goran. Old Stanko is hurt in a quarrel for land with peasants from the neighboring village. Goran helps him. Kanco takes advantage of the general confusion and shoots at the shepherd. While the two men lie wounded on the ground Kancho surprises Sevdana, who is worried about her father, and drags her towards the vineyards. Aunt Strahila rushes to her help. Sevdana looks after Goran. Old Stanko curses his daughter believing that she is being disgraced. The peasants attribute the present drought to the sins of the young and their defiance of established customs and traditions. Everyone shuns Sevdana and she loses her mind. Kancho does not evade retribution and dies. Goran leaves the village.

This film depicting the story of a peasant girl is in five art. The initial title of the film was to be: He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.