Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Gennady Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev
The 20-s. Viktor Nikolaievich Sorokin, the director of a boarding school, a refined intellectual, gathers in his school homeless children, aggravated and embittered by the difficult life they had. Step by step he is shaping the souls and characters of children, developing them into conscious citizens.
