A young Russian boy goes blind during a German gas attack somewhere in the Polish lands during WWI. His further short life is set with tribulations as he is treated as a stray dog by his own officers. But the ending is open and the quality of production sets in your memory. Why it had to be mixed with some modern background production of orchestra that is trying to play a symphony in the background and as a result irritates you immensely, I don't know. But this cacophony spoils impression from the entire movie, that would rather be a short formatted one.