At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes herself bracelets of burrs and studies herself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. Befriended by very few, teased and tormented by many she seeks protection at a huge portrait of Stalin.
as Paranya
as Zorka
as Liza
as Andrej Andrejevics
as Rendõrkapitány
as Olga Filimovna
as Genagyij Pesztyarjov, tornatanár
as Nadezsgya Zsdanova ,szörpárus
as Bibakov
as Bavucsilov
as Szávuskin, rendõr
