The Thief

Sanya was born amidst the cold and muck of an empty field. At age six, he and his mother Katya boarded a train and encountered Tolyan, a handsome army officer who wasted no time in becoming Katya's lover. At first Sanya resents Tolyan, but then comes to love him like a father. Tolyan teaches the boy all about manliness and other important things, and their family is happy until the day that mother and son learn that Tolyan is not a soldier but a thief. Still their love for him remains strong and they stay together until he is arrested and sent to Siberia on a seven-year prison sentence.