Georgina Harding
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Augustin, a deaf mute and the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter, is found on the steps of the hospital in Iaşi, Romania, where she works and remembering him, Safta brings him paper and pencil so he may draw, which brings the two of them back together again in a friendship that bypasses social classes.