This story is about three young people trapped in besieged Leningrad during World War II, who were looking for an apartment that survived the bombing, but found each other for life. Marat and Lika (she loved the proud Marat, but married ...See moreThis story is about three young people trapped in besieged Leningrad during World War II, who were looking for an apartment that survived the bombing, but found each other for life. Marat and Lika (she loved the proud Marat, but married Leonidik, who lost his arm at the front) fled from their own happiness and are now painfully returning to it, learning to be happy again with such difficulty, as if they were learning to walk again. And Leonid, for whom the burden of his love has become unbearable, finds it just as difficult to learn how to be free again.
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