An episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.

Semen Nezhyvyi
Ivan Gonta
rent collector, possessor
head of the estate, Jewish innkeeper
Moshko
Maksym Zalizniak
Oksana, Semen's bride
Polish Pan Chiczewski
Oksana's mother
Uliana, Semen's mother
Dinysii
Governor-General of Uman, Prince Mladynovych