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The protagonist of the story, a ten-year-old homeless boy Myshko, is admitted to an orphanage. From the outside, he looks «useless, ragged, bare feet all in the mud», but at the same time he assures that he has a mother and father, and he lives here not far away, and when asked why he is naked and barefoot, the orphan boy demonstrates ingenuity, answering: «…I have boots, but my mother hid them so that I would not leave the house. So I ran away barefoot. I have a coat and a nice hat - my mother hid everything."

Stepan Vasylchenko wrote the story "The Stranger" in 1925. The plot of the story "Pribluda" is taken from the life of an orphanage. In the 20s of the XX century, Vasylchenko was the head of the orphanage.