Raakaleenkorjuu

The narrative follows a longstanding rural family as its fortunes and identity shift from aristocratic origins toward modest agriculture, tracing the patriarch's uneasy adjustment to landownership, his conversion to Methodism, and a second marriage that reshapes household dynamics. Tensions between tradition and change emerge through neighbors' disapproval, the pressure of encroaching larger farms, and youth who resist paternal authority. Interwoven are detailed depictions of the landscape, farm work and harvest rhythms, domestic routines, and the moral and economic dilemmas of sustaining an inherited estate in a transforming countryside.