A farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.

Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, this melodrama follows the evil plotting of an unremorseful tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors' crops.—yusufpiskin

One exceptionally arid summer, a scheming tobacco farmer builds a dam to divert the local water to his own property. As the villagers band together to fight him, a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride.—yusufpiskin