Synopsis

Papa Panov is an old shoemaker, now almost too blind to thread a needle On Christmas Eve he has a dream that Jesus will visit him on Christmas Day. Eager and anxious, he waits all day.But his only visitors are a tramp, a roadsweeper, and a pauper woman with her cold and hungry baby. Despite his disappointment and fading hope, Papa Panov gives them his coat, his money, his soup . And even the tiny shoes he was saving as a present for Baby Jesus . Night falls and his special visitor still hasn't arrived. Papa Panov thinks himself a silly, old fool . But then he has another dream ... A dream which convinces him his special visitor did come after all