Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
as Leonid Pleshcheyev
as Mariya
as Sotnikov
as Polina
as Shalagin
as Frosya Mekhotneva
as Kapustina
as Moshkin
as Prokhorov
as Akhromovich
as Prokhorova
as Makukhin
as Lyonya Pleshcheyev
as Lyonya in youth
as policeman
as Natasha
as Kostya
as Pavel
as Pavel's sister
as Polina's friend
as Alyosha
as passenger (uncredited)
as woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)
as militiaman (uncredited)
as Moshkin's wife (uncredited)
as factory worker (uncredited)
as factory worker (uncredited)
as workshop foreman (uncredited)
