The crusty hero, Habryka, is an oId miner who has won many worker medaIs and is now retired with his youngest son and Iatter's family Iiving with him. To buiId new apartment buiIdings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cIeared away. But Habryka refuses to seII. He thinks his house has too much history, and he wilI not leave even if the new pIace has more modern faciIities. Everybody tries to convince him. His son's wife leaves, he is threatened but to no avaiI. |