Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to his previous life are broken. In this new life blind Zuev encounters an exceptional woman capable of seeing more than other people. Her name sounds symbolic – Nadezhda (translates as 'hope' into English) and she works at the local hospital. Nadezhda will help Zuev find his strength and a new sense of existing. These equally strong but otherwise different people spend together what, perhaps, will be the best days of their lives; but everything has an ending.

1942年春天，列宁格勒。在被围困封锁的第一个冬天之后，大交响乐团的指挥收到了一项重要的政府委托，要在被围困的城市里演奏肖斯塔科维奇的第七号交响曲。这似乎是不可能的——乐团只剩下少数几个音乐家：有些人饿死了，有些人上了前线，还有一些人下落不明。但音乐会要举行并响彻世界，让朋友和敌人都能听到 "列宁格勒还在！"。内务部官员阿纳托利·谢列金被派去帮助乐团的团长卡尔·埃利亚斯贝格。但甚至在这一命令下达之前，在突袭中失去全家的塞雷金中尉的命运就与埃利亚斯贝格的命运交叉了：正是塞雷金带头逮捕了指挥家的妻子。尽管他们相互不信任和完全拒绝，指挥家和中尉必须实现不可能的目标：他们必须一起在被围困的城市找到失踪的表演者，并确保第七号交响曲的首演。

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A small boy lives with his grandfather in an old builder’s caravan in the vast expanse of the Russian Steppes. There is a scarecrow in front of their makeshift home in the field. With no other playmate, the scarecrow becomes his friend.