OF FREAKS AND MEN

In the early 20th century, two families live in Saint Petersburg in relative comfort. The first family is that of Dr Stasov and his attractive but blind wife, Ekaterina Kirilovna. Seventeen years earlier, they adopted Siamese twins from Mongolia. The second is of more modest origins: the family of Radlov, a railroad engineer, and his daughter, Lisa, an innocent dreamer in her 20s. She hates only one person: their maid, Grunya, who became her father's mistress when her mother died. Lisa also suspects her of having a secret liaison with a certain Johann, the owner of a photo studio...