Întors în satul natal, Afanasie, un fost fântânar, decide să iniţieze curăţarea fântânilor din sat cu ajutorul vecinilor. Urmează să descopere că el, de fapt, e cel care are nevoie de „curăţare” şi împăcare cu trecutul său.
After many years of wandering abroad due to a family helmet, Afanasie, a former well-sinker, decides to return home to his native village. Afanasie wants to start life from the beginning, and for this, he thinks, he must finish digging the well in his yard, abandoned many years ago. But first, Afanasie must go through a soul-cleansing, because "there is no greater punishment for a sinner than finding no reconciliation with himself.
