女主角被一男子绑架，注射了一种药物，使女主角在梦里经历被杀的痛苦。女主角梦中惊醒了又注射药物让她睡去，然后继续在梦里被杀。最后故事的走向出人意料......

“A Staircase to the Sky” (1966), which won for the author the most part of prizes in Soviet Union, again renders the heavy psychological spirit of the post-war Lithuanian village.