
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


