In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Stepan Krylov
Katasonov

Mykola Hrynko
Gryaznov

Dmytro Milyutenko
Old Man

Valentina Malyavina
Masha

Irma Raush
Ivan's Mother