Nadezhda Moshkina

A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

11-year old Sashka is spending his summer at his grandma's together with his elder brother, and they both happen to fall for the same girl.