Mikhail Nikolaev Grozev is 31 years old. He has incomplete secondary education. His father - Nikolay Grozev, left the white world when Mikhail was 8 years old. Mikhail grows up as a good and clever child, he does not cause problems for his mother. He was accepted to the Steel Technical School in Stara Zagora. Since his mother works at the Music Theatre in Sofia, Mikhail is taken care of by his grandparents, who are alive and well today.

In his second year, the boy fell into a bad environment. He ruined his success at school, ran away from school. Once he even ran away from home and lived with a friend. The grandparents found it difficult to cope on their own, and the mother's heavy employment at the theatre did not allow her to travel to Stara Zagora often. The grandparents find themselves unable to care for their grandson and the mother takes him home to Sofia. Mikhail enrolls in an evening high school. He has already started to abuse alcohol. As a result, he falls ill, gets kidney stones. He undergoes two operations - at the Alexandrovska and the Military Hospital. When his health improves, Mikhail works.

He fell into various companies where he was paid daily wages. He did not stay long in one job because alcohol attracted him, for which he realized and regretted. For some time he works as a security guard at the Hotel "Moreni" in Vitosha, the co-owner is happy with him and wants to keep him there. At one point Mikhail feels very lonely in the mountains and leaves his job to go home to his mother in Sofia. After another binge he enters the clinic in Sukhodol. He stays there for three months, but there is no result from the treatment. He returns to his mother, tries to start a normal life. His kidneys are severely damaged. Professor Saltirov operates on him in the urology of the Military Medical Academy. After the surgical treatment Mikhail does his best to stabilize - he sits at home, he has lost a lot of weight physically, but he tries to help his mother in the household. Unfortunately, he reaches for alcohol again.

His mother, Stanimira Vassileva, managed to get him admitted to the "St. Naum" clinic on Tsarigradsko Shose in Sofia. There he was treated several times - he stayed for a month, went home, then was admitted to the hospital again. The treatment did not work, Mikhail fell into depression. He realizes that he has a serious problem. He is admitted to the commune for alcohol addicts "Betel" in a village near Kremikovtzi. Mikhail stays there for three months, leaves of his own free will because he thinks he is cured and can continue his life in a normal way.Shortly after he left the commune, Mikhail turned to alcohol again. He is now fully aware of the problem that is ruining his health, but he cannot bring himself to stop drinking. He has no friends at the moment. His intimate girlfriend is abandoning him. His best friend, Victor, who has been by his side for years and tries to help him, is also drifting away from Mikhail.

Mikhail is now aggressive towards everyone, including his mother. At times he realises that alcohol is bringing him down, he cries, asks his mother for forgiveness, kisses her and hugs her. Then the aggression returns. The young man is ready to go to the Open Eyes Association clinic in Varna and undergo treatment there. The clinic "Open Eyes Association" has a website on the web, which makes it clear that it is an orthodox therapeutic community for addicts - alcoholics, drug addicts, devoted to gambling. The living conditions are very good - a house located in a pine forest, from the bedrooms you can see the sea.

Mikhail's mother, Stanimira Vassileva, believes that her son will recover and be free from his severe addiction. Mikhail is her only joy, she wants to bring him back to normal life - both of them to be useful to society and to live in understanding.