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.
Борис Ливанов
as Maxim Yatsenko
Василий Ливанов
as Pyotr
Marianna Strizhenova
as Anna Mikhailovna
Larisa Kurdyumova
as Evelina
Юрий Пузырёв
as Joachim
Алексей Грибов
as Fyodor Kandyba
Сергей Блинников
as Stavruchenko
Виктор Мурганов
as Ilya
Вадим Грачёв
as Andrei
Никита Кондратьев
as Kuzma
Nikolay Kozinin
as bell ringer
Александр Смирнов
as Popelsky
