An old woman dressed in black tearfully says goodbye to her son and daughter-in-law while the couple's children, too young to fully comprehend what is happening, anxiously cling to their parents' legs. An old grey-haired man, whose erect bearing conveys a sense of dignity that decades of persecution could not break, silently embraces his son, who might be a fledgling engineer or doctor. Fearing that his self-control is about to break, the father abruptly turns and walks swiftly out of the railroad station. A tearful, pretty girl of 20 drags a suitcase...
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