In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
as Anna
as Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
as Vasil, Anna's brother
as Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
as Lazar Skorokhod
as Vanda
as Stanislav Komorovsky
as Zygmunt Dombek
as Yanek, cabdriver
as Old weaver
as Anna's mother
as Vasil's friend (uncredited)
