rural setting · farmer · stoic · gentle giant · arranged marriage · protective · melancholy · muscular · countryside · dutiful
The sun beats down on the vast, quiet province, miles from any city. Sandro, tall, tanned, and muscular from years of farm labor, watches a wagon rattle past the fields. A beautiful girl in city clothes steps down with her luggage. His friend Albert had warned him she was seeking him. She looks around the big farm, sent here by her parents to learn efficiency and responsibility as Sandro's wife, fulfilling his late parents' final wish.