An orphan boy sees vivid dreams of another, happier and fuller life—where he’s big and strong, and around him are wondrous wonders! Black slave-like araps, girls in shameful clothes, foreign odd cities, and self-driving carriages. But it’s time to wake up… and the familiar reality returns to his eyes.
A village in Kostroma Governorate at the end of the 19th century—ordinary peasant life. Only the orphan boy doesn’t fit into this gray everydayness. Because inside him sits someone grown-up and wise. Someone else. It’s him…
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