Овод

He was young, naive, in love, full of freedom-loving ideas and romantic illusions. He was deceived, slandered, rejected and despised. He disappeared, simulating suicide, and returned to his homeland only thirteen years later - under a false name, with a disfigured appearance, a distorted fate and a tormented heart. He appeared before the people whom he once knew and dearly loved, a mocking cynic with a sonorous and biting journalistic pseudonym Gadfly. And few people managed to discern under this mask the passionate, impulsive, noble nature of a person who is still faithful to the beautiful ideals of his youth ...