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A five-act rural drama portrays an East Finnish parish where a smallholder family navigates poverty, credit with local merchants, community gossip and shifting social ties. Scenes move from the Valkeapää household to public gatherings as Antti's debts to merchant Sipi strain family relations, Sohvi and daughters Hilma and Liisa contend with shame and practical needs, and Siiri, raised in a wealthier household, returns bringing class tensions and romantic complications. The play examines how economic dependence, pride, and reputations shape choices in a tight-knit village, unfolding through domestic encounters, public meetings and interpersonal confrontations that expose competing loyalties and the costs of social ambition.