French Lessons

It is hard for us to imagine true hunger. When it is not an hour, not two, but a day, a week, a month - you constantly want to eat. And you still need to grow and learn, get along with strangers, whom your mother brought you to, because in the fifth grade, in the difficult post-war years, you can only go to school in the district center…

A lonely boy feels hungry and homeless, and in order to survive, he starts playing "chik" for money with older boys. Just to buy some milk with those coins. The hero is lucky, but for his luck, he gets beaten more than once, and he comes to school with bruises. Fortunately, his French teacher turns out to be a very kind person, and she tries her best to help…