The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
as Andrei Kosarev
as Rita Pletnyova
as Ladya Bragin
as Sandi
as Olya
as Ganka
as Kira Viktorovna
as Grisha
as professor Migdal
as Olya's grandfather
as Andrei's mother
as Rita's father
as granddad in the village
as Rita's friend
as himself (uncredited)
as guest at a village wedding
