It rains constantly on Venus, and the sun appears every seven years only for two hours.

Thousands of days filled with rain, all made up of rain; a rumble and a fraction of a shower, crystal waterfalls of a hail, violent hurricanes, like tsunamis that flood the islands.

None of the colonists, except the girl Margot, remembers what the sun looks like. The girl remembers him because she flew to Venus from Earth, where she saw him all the time. Classmates do not like Margot because she is unlike the other children of Venus. A fragile and painful girl is afraid of water.

She looked like she had been in the rain for several years and he had dissolved all the blue of her eyes, all the redness of her lips, all the yellowness of her hair. She was an old, faded photograph from a dusty album.

Rumor has it that parents will take Margo to Earth, although they will lose many thousands of dollars on this.

Yesterday in the lesson, children wrote poems and stories about the sun. The best poem was written by Margot. She compares the sun with a gold coin, with fire, but classmates do not believe and envy her, her future. They laugh cruelly at the girl. On the only day when the sun can be seen in the sky of Venus, the children tell Margot that the astronomers have made a mistake and lock it in a closet.

Finally, the rain stops and the sun appears.

It was very large, the color of fiery bronze. A dazzling blue sky surrounded him. The forest burned in the sun.

Numb for a moment, the children come to life and run towards the spring. Two hours pass very quickly. The first drop falls on the palm of one of the girls, and again comes the time of seven-year rains.

Then the children remember Margo.

They could not look into each other's eyes. Their faces became pale and serious. They looked down at their arms and legs.

Shamed by their deed, they slowly go to the closet and release the captive.