There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.
Georgi Zhzhyonov
Eduard Martsevich
Galina Polskikh
Elena Safonova
Semyon Morozov
Konstantin Sorokin
Antonina Pavlycheva
Maya Bulgakova
Sergey Yakovlev
Yevgeni Shutov
Anatoly Vedyonkin
Vera Altayskaya
Vera Burlakova
Valentina Berezutskaya
Inna Vykhodtseva
Nina Dobrikova
Larisa Danilina
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
Aleksandr Lebedev
Vladimir Pitsek
Manefa Sobolevskaya
Anatoliy Solovyov
Svetlana Stepanova
Marianna Strizhenova
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
Evgeniy Zosimov
Ivan Turchenkov
Anatoli Golik