Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.
as Stepan Beresekov
as Doctor Sokolnikov
as Capitolina
as Ivan Popov
as Fomusya
as Fevronya
as Master
as Nikolay Popov
as Shaman
as Maya
as Father Vasily
