Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason KryÅ”tofās family where he had lived before he left. All he finds out is that KryÅ”tofās daughter MĆ”rynka, who was in his thoughts all those years, is now working in the local brothel. He goes to visit her and MĆ”rynka tells him of the misfortunes which befell her family.