The Step

Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment He wants to be independent and find his place in the world But no basic changes ensue he has the same friends with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity Only the death of his favorite teacher to whom the young man felt very close really changes his habitual way of life Alexi makes a decision he refuses a place at a research institute and leaves for a teaching job at a village school the same school his mentor used to work at