Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.
Yevgeni Kindinov
Yelena Koreneva
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Irina Kupchenko
Elizaveta Solodova
Iya Savvina
Vladimir Konkin
Aleksandr Zbruev
Roman Gromadskiy
Mykola Hrynko
Ivan Ryzhov
Aleksandr Samoylov
Valentina Ananina
I. Bragina
N. Birko
Ekaterina Veresova
Anatoly Vedyonkin
Elena Volskaya
Larisa Vadko
Nikolay Glazkov
Anatoli Golik
Yevgeny Gurov
Sergei Evseev
Aleksei Zadachin
Irina Korablyova
S. Lyushina
Valery Lysenkov
Yekaterina Mazurova
Daniil Netrebin
N. Pastukhova
Vladimir Protasenko
Leonid Sturov
Georgios Sovchis
Nina Satova
Viktor Uralsky
Grigory Tsitrinyak
Lyudmila Krasheninnikova
Kirill Vats
Nina Zakharova
Vladimir Kapustin
Evgeniya Kiryakova
Andrei Konchalovsky
Aleksandr Lukyanov
Viktor Markin
Yuriy Mochalov
Sergei Nikolaev
Maryana Polteva
Viktor Rzhevskiy
Nikolay Smorchkov
Vyacheslav Starshinov
Valentina Ushakova
Semyon Farada
Lev Frichinsky
Aleksandr Yakushev
Oleg Tsarkov