The returning soldier Kuzma Kadkin on the train tells how well he lived before the war, and that everyone in the area knows him. An accidental fellow traveler, a young mother, leaves her child, a one and a half year old boy, Kadkin, to run away at the junction for water, but lags behind the train. Kuzma has no choice but to bring the baby home...
as Kuzma Kadkin
as Pelageya
as girl
as Nyurka
as godfather
as conductor
as Valeriana
as Matvei
as old man
as Dmitri Kadkin
as sailor-harmonist
as Larisa the nurse
as doctor
