The Stone Cross

In 1890s Western Ukraine Ivan Didukh a proud and ripe Galician farmer has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure The celebrations that echo those of a funeral forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion