Today he's happy. He always is when he works in the fields. "Why do Mom and Dad make me go to this school, and not just go, but learn these unnecessary skills for him, a machine operator? It would be better if he threshed the grain quietly, and it would be easier for Mom, too. And let my younger sisters go to school, even though they're already grown up..." Eleven-year-old Bogdan carefully lifts the harvester and stops it at the edge of the field.