The film of Siko Dolidze fully embodies the ideology of the 1920s. Shot against a backdrop of social realism, the film depicts the transformation of the Georgian countryside, where individual farming gives way to collectivisation. The peasant, the bearer of traditional values, finds himself at the heart of a conflict between the old and the new world: for him, the land symbolises personal freedom and ancestral heritage, while Soviet ideology demands the legitimisation of collective ownership and cooperative labour. This documentary thus illustrates the tension between peasant memory and social revolution, between attachment to the land and the imperatives of the regime.
