Set in a rural Slavonian village during the 1960s, this tense period drama explores the dark underbelly of patriarchy, religious hypocrisy, and deep-seated domestic exploitation. The narrative begins when Marko, a powerful and wealthy landowner, stuns his village by hand-picking Janja, a destitute seasonal day-laborer, to marry his handsome son, Ivo. While Janja initially views the proposal as a miraculous escape from poverty into an exemplary, pious household, the immaculate family façade quickly unravels after the wedding. She soon discovers that she was chosen as a submissive scapegoat by the manipulative patriarch to cover up a web of toxic family secrets, crushing marital infidelity, and domestic abuse, turning her dream of a better life into a claustrophobic fight for her very survival and freedom.