The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Teresa Lipowska
Franciszek Pieczka
Andrzej Kozak
Włodzimierz Twardowski
Janina Grzegorczyk
Wanda Ostrowska
Ewa Zdzieszyńska
Ewa Żukowska
Henryk Bista
Ludwik Benoit
Sylwester Borkowski
Ryszard Dembiński
Jan Paweł Kruk
Krzysztof Kalczyński
Jan Konieczny
Włodzimierz Kwaskowski
Włodzimierz Musiał
Jerzy Nowak
Leon Niemczyk
Józef Pieracki
Stefan Paska
Bogusław Sochnacki
Bogumił Antczak
Zbigniew Bielski
Jerzy Braszka
Aleksander Fogiel
Andrzej Głoskowski
Tomasz Grochoczyński
Józef Grzeszczak
Bogdan Łysakowski
Czesław Magnowski
Zygmunt Malawski
Borys Marynowski
Barbara Wałkówna
Tadeusz Teodorczyk
Józef Zbiróg
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz