Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Oleg Borisov
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Nikolai Simonov
Tatyana Doronina
Viktor Avdyushko
Yelena Dobronravova
Lyubov Sokolova
Viktor Chekmaryov
Aleksandr Sokolov
Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
Stanislav Chekan
Boris Ryzhukhin
Aleksei Dogadayev
Stanislav Sokolov
Viktor Tregubovich
Tamara Konovalova
Boris Arakelov
Valery Zimenkov
Nadezhda Seraya
Galina Teplinskaya
Valeriy Veselov
Sergey Golubev
Svetlana Mazovetskaya
Oleg Khromenkov
Zinaida Karpova
Viktor Chaynikov
Konstantin Malakhov
Leonid Makaryev