The story of Dimitar Paskov, a Bulgarian medical doctor, one of the founders of experimental pharmacology in his country.
A child refugee from the Balkan Wars of the early 20th Century, Professor Paskov dedicated more than 50 years of his life to medical research and is famous around the world for extracting an ingredient from Bulgarian snowdrops and using it to create "Nivalin" - a revolutionary medication for the treatment of polio, but today also of Alzheimer and other forms of dementia.