Colonel Lavrov from a regime city learns that his friend’s son has been left an orphan and lives in a boarding school. He is overwhelmed by one feeling: “to grab him in an armful and take him away, to somehow protect him from this orphan’s fate.” But Lavrov’s brother and his school friend are trying to reason with the colonel. After all, it will be difficult for him, a single person, to obtain permission for adoption, and the boy may not agree. But Lavrov thinks differently: “There is the boy Gorka! And there is me, Konstantin Lavrov! And why do I need to look around timidly, whether they will take me for a maniac from the gateway, if I want to take care of the boy. Children can use... People can think... Why should I care about this! "Be as kind as you can!" - he recalls the words of the Christian saint.