The Shaman's Source

Every household that has joined the cooperative farm is entitled to a plot of land for private use. The Sedmaks family live together but the elder son Krum want the family to separate on paper as to be given more land. The younger son, Nayden, has passed the university entrance exams but his admission is not assumed because the village Party secretary has given him a bad character reference. He returns to the village in search of justices. The president of cooperative farm has faith in the young man and tries to help him. Krum and his family set up a separate household, though the family all continue to have supper together. Nayden is not aware of what is going on. Yanka, the daughter of the president of cooperative farm, is in love with Nayden. The two meet every evening. One evening the Sedmaks family leaves their door unlocked. The farm president comes and finds them together. The fraud comes out into the open. The farm president forbids his daughter to meet Nayden. Yanka no longer trusts the boy either. After he fatal supper The Sedmaks clan have a quarrel, which ends with a real separation. Nayden leaves his father's home. The head of the family, old Sedmak, and Krum admit their guilt. On second thoughts, Yanka goes back to Nayden. Nayden receives a god reference, marries Yanka, and he young couple leave for the town to study.

A girl who, because of the dangerous community [Maine woods settlement], masquerades as a boy during the day, only to become herself again when safely ensconced in her own home at night. Years before, her mother had been murdered by a renegade, and her father has sworn to get the villain. It develops that a nasty neighbor is the party wanted. Her father gives him what's coming to him and is only prevented from homicide by Lytell, as the young man from the City who has fallen in love with the daughter.

A poignant story of motherhood, post abortion grief and relationship between two women.

Focuses on three stories set in different regions of West Bengal, India, that depict the human condition.