After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
Nonna Mordyukova
Oleg Menshikov
Vladimir Mashkov
Evgeny Mironov
Aleksei Kravchenko
Andrei Panin
Maksim Sukhanov
Nikolay Chindyaykin
Elena Panova
Mikhail Krylov
Pavel Lebeshev
Valeriy Doronin
Anna Shtukaturova
Natalya Pozdnyakova
Maria Skosyreva
Anatoliy Belyy
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Rafik Sabirov
Vladimir Ivanov
Zhanna Epple
Gleb Podgorodinsky
Roman Madyanov
Igor Zolotovitsky
Ervand Arzumanyan
Bolot Beyshenaliev
Viktor Uralsky
Tatyana Samoylova
Lyudmila Karaush