L'histoire d’Eneida parodie celle de l’Énéide, dans laquelle Énée, prince de Troie, quitte sa ville détruite par les Achéens après la ruse du cheval de Troie, et entame un long voyage en quête d'un endroit où fonder une nouvelle Troie, qui sera finalement Rome. Les Troyens deviennent ici des Cosaques.
In a small Hutsul village in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, a young man, Ivan, falls in love with the daughter of the man who killed his father. Though their families share a bitter enmity, Ivan and Marichka have known each other since childhood. In preparation for their marriage, Ivan leaves the village to work and earn money for a household. While he is gone, Marichka accidentally slips into a river and drowns while trying to rescue a lost lamb.