In the Gurian village, lost in the mountains of Georgia, lives a girl Khatia, blind from birth. Her only friend, the orphan Dato, lives with her aunt, the well-respected Keto teacher. A wounded Red Army soldier Anatoly appears in the village and becomes the object of attention of children and women. But soon the deserted collective farm foreman returns and explains his appearance by the impossibility of living without Keto... The time of action is the Great Patriotic War.