
The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...

as Nesterov

as Yevdokiya

as Frolov

as Sima

as Lida

as Irishka

as Glasha

as head of the geological laboratory

as Ivan Gavrilovich

as balalaika player

as Agrafena

as administrator in the collective farmer's house

as Lida's mother

as collective farmer-driver

as Klavdiya Suchkova

as Glasha's father

as Glasha's mother

as curious soldier woman

as female driver

as charioteer

as secretary

as collective farmer

as collective farmer (uncredited)

as Yegor (uncredited)

as old tractor driver (uncredited)

as Silantyev (uncredited)