THE STORY OF EVALIZ, SHUKAR BALAN: The White Lamb

The title words, "Shukar Balan" and "White Lamb," are one and the same. This is what a tall, dark, and handsome Gypsy fiddler called Evaliz, a blond, sixteen-year-old Russian-German peasant girl, at a wedding dance under the stars in Russia, 1893. Shukar The White Lamb is the story of a philosophical father and a son who dreams only of the military - who wants to be a skilled horseman exactly like the Don Cossack. But mainly it is the story of Evaliz, the daughter, who wills her life to be different and who longs for America - that land of liberty and freedom which lies far across the sea. But many things have to happen before her longing is stilled.