When winter refuses to leave a little village, the townspeople try everything to scare it away, but it is not until wise Hans' plan, using hay, straw, and an old wagon, that a taste of green spring appears...
In this bittersweet tale of hard times in a small Midwestern town, two sisters and a lonesome Bulgarian immigrant offer one another consolation. . . . Angel's eccentricities attract the girls: his home, his artistic carpentry, his passion for opera. ...