The play "Land" is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the classics of Ukrainian literature and its modern interpretation in the theater. A team of Ukrainian artists from Kyiv presents a staging of the novel by Olha Kobylianska (1863 – 1942) at the National Drama Theater of Kaunas. The play tells an intriguing family story that intertwines love and betrayal, war and death, parent-child relationship problems, and other eternal human themes. The novel is based on a real tragedy in the village of Dymtsi - a brother killed his elder brother in order to inherit the land of his parents. Although the action of "Zhemes" takes place in the village of Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries, the biblical story of the first crime of humanity - fratricide - is universal in all times and in any part of the world. The earth feeds a person, supports life, provides a home, determines the place of heroes in the community, their perception of the world. The earth dictates its will to man, punishes and educates, it is a force that destroys. The land is a territory where killing is still taking place today. Earth is the main character that determines everyone's destinies.