The Workers Settlement

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind Against his will he became a dependent He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai but the boy runs away and returns to his father So together they eke out a halfmiserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin Pleshcheyevs longtime friend returns from the army It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct selfesteem and pride of a soldier Pity aside he helps him get back to work