The film tells about a number of hereditary eye diseases and injuries during childbirth. The film shows the Children's Republican Hospital, a diagnostic center, a boarding school for blind and visually impaired children, a specialized kindergarten and an eye clinic of the Morozov hospital. The film introduces diagnostics and treatment methods, both medication and surgical treatment. Ophthalmologist of the RSFSR, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor E. N. Kovalevsky talks about congenital eye pathology (synchronously).