
There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.

as Karyakin

as Aleksandr

as Nadezhda

as Lyuba

as Grekov

as Fyodor Illarionovich

as grandmother

as Vera

as college director

as Klimentiy

as factory worker

as Dariya

as Alevtina

as Nadezhda's friend

as Yekaterina Antonovna

as Vera

as neighbor

as Nadezhda's friend

as podyachy

as veteran

as parishioner

as Ivan Afanasyevich

as Aleksandr's wife

as organizer of the poetry evening

as neighbor

as philosopher (uncredited)

as guest (uncredited)

as churchman (uncredited)

as guest (uncredited)