- [opening title cards]
- Title Card: This song of the Man and his Wife is of no place and every place; you might hear it anywhere, at any time.
- Title Card: For wherever the sun rises and sets, in the city's turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same; sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.
- The Maid: They used to be like children, carefree... always happy and laughing... Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city - Money-lenders strip the farm - and his wife sits alone.
- A Minister: She is young... and inexperienced. Guide her and love her...