16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.
as Mari
as Robi
as Tauri
as Katrin
as Kerttu
as Melita
as Siiri
as Anne
as Teacher
as Robi's Mother
as Mari's Father
as Tauri's Father
as Anneli
as Rein
as Manfred
as Headmaster
as Ülo's Lover
as Male Teacher
as Anne's Mother
as Triin
