Svitlana Prus

Based on the story of Marko Vovchok "Pavlо Chornokryl". Pavlo Chornokryl, passionate about young beauty Varka, kills his wife Anna for the opportunity to be with her mistress.

Bolshevists aim to set their rules on the lands of the Western Ukraine repeatedly occupied by them. UPA – the partisan army – resists their policy. Civil population becomes a hostage of this war "without rules", and above all – relatives of the insurgents. Invaders and their allies cruelly torture Ukrainian people, but the struggle continues. Irritated, "bolshevists" start evicting people to Siberia. UPA tries to prevent this action, but the forces are not equal... Insurgents can only take revenge and punish the executioners.

In the 1st season of the series "Probationary Love", the 35-year-old widower spends a lot of time in the apiary, which feeds his family. Because of this, eight-year-old Lucy and four-year-old Petya are completely abandoned. The guardianship authorities threaten to take the babies away. In order not to send the children to a boarding school, Pavel publishes an ad in the newspaper that he is looking for a wife who wants to help him with the kids. So the librarian Natalia appears in the man's house. The main character still has not recovered from the death of his wife and hardly accepts another woman in the house. The children are jealous of Natasha's father. It is difficult for a woman to be in this tense atmosphere.