Larisa Kurdyumova

Ivan passe sans conviction son concours d'entrée à l'Université et au grand désespoir de sa mère qui vient de divorcer, il échoue. Il accepte avec indifférence un poste de garçon de courses et en entrant chez un professeur distingué, son premier client, il choque par sa franchise et son sans-gêne mais étonne et ravit la fille de la maison. Pourtant son attitude irrite plus souvent qu’elle ne séduit et finalement, en masquant sa vraie personnalité, il ne sait plus convaincre de ses vrais sentiments.

In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky, the only son Petrik is blind from birth. His mother Anna Mikhailovna, infinitely loving and pitying the boy, educates him as a rare fragile flower. And only Uncle Maxim, who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth, is trying to accustom the boy to independence. The boy begins to recognize the world by touch, and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano. But, still not knowing the price of his talent, he leaves with the tramps "to seek the truth." And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted.