In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.
Vasili Yaroslavtsev
Ada Vojtsik
Ivan Klyukvin
Nikolai Vitovtov
Eduard Kulganek
Galina Kravchenko
Sergey Borisov
Naum Rogozhin
Ivan Arkanov
Aleksandr Zhukov
Boris Yurtsev
Mstislav Kotelnikov
Tatyana Barysheva
Lev Ivanov