On the day that the herd returns to the valley, Firmino kidnaps Frieda who comes from a village on the hill where another language is spoken, where people believe in another God, where, in fact, a different race lives. Firmino takes the girl with him and keeps her as prisoner in his home, also because the snow has fallen, so he cannot reach her village until the spring. But in the spring the people from Frieda's village village come to take revenge.. The only person who knows where Frieda is and knwos how to get there is Mattia, a pedlar.