Martin Eden

After saving Arturo, a young heir of the industrial middle class, from a beating, the sailor Martin Eden is invited to his family home. There he meets Elena, Arturo’s beautiful sister, and falls in love at first sight. The cultured and refined young woman becomes not only the object of Martin’s affections, but also a symbol of the social status he aspires to achieve.With effort and overcoming the obstacles posed by his humble origin, Martin pursues the dream of becoming a writer and, influenced by elderly intellectual Russ Brissenden, becomes a part of socialist circles, coming into conflict with Elena’s bourgeois world.