A film-portrait of Petko Slaveykov that tells the story of the clash between the patriarchal and modern mind; a film about the contradictions between ideal and life necessity and the unknown paths of poetic enlightenment and the fateful embedding of the poet’s personal destiny in his masterpiece, ‘The White Nymph Spring’.

Prof. MIKHAIL MELTEV, PhD, is a director of documentary and feature films, a professor at the New Bulgarian University and the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts; the author of many publications and books on television and film; his films have won awards at national and international film festivals.