They don't burn it. They take it to the Jewish Historical Institute in Vilnius. The film is developed. The photographs show the faces of the oligarch's grandfather, shaking hands with SS officers—and, in the background, the faces of the five partisans, including Jonas, watching from the trees.
Austėja, a pragmatic historian, and Matas, a cynical IT specialist, begin searching. They discover a hidden compartment under the floorboards of the old barn. Inside: a rusted ammunition box, a hand-drawn map of the Labanoras Forest, and a journal written in a personal code of geometric symbols. Someone has already tried to burn the journal—only half remains. palikimas 1 sezonas
The letter reads: "To the one who finds this: burn it or protect it. There is no middle ground. – E." They don't burn it
At the ruined windmill, Matas uses his tech skills to find a magnetic anomaly underground. They dig with their hands and find a sealed lead box. Inside: no treasure. Only a single roll of undeveloped film from 1944, a child's shoe, and a letter in Yiddish. The photographs show the faces of the oligarch's
The oligarch sends men to retrieve the evidence. Austėja and Matas are trapped in the forest, with night falling. Using Jonas's old partisan signals (three stone piles, a broken branch pointing east), they alert Onutė and a network of local foresters—the descendants of the original resistance.