French Lessons

An eleven-year-old village boy comes from the village to the city to continue his schooling. The boy suffers from anemia and often gets tortured by hunger. A young French teacher, Lydia Mikhailovna, offers him her help, but the proud boy stubbornly refuses. The young woman resorts to a trick to help the child and plays with the boy for money, inviting him to her home for private French lessons.