August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organizational skills and will. Together with the evacuated plant, refugees arrive in the town. The heroine of the Film Anna takes to her house a woman with children — her example is followed by the rest…
as Nikolai Petrovich Anikeyev
as Anna Ivanovna Svirdova
as Alexei Vasiliyevich Kozyrev
as Marina Gavrilovna Svirdlova, mother
as Tosya Ushakova
as Evacuated woman
as Tonya, Antonina's neighbour
