A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Vasiliy Shukshin
Yegor Proskudin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba Baikalova
Ivan Ryzhov
Fyodor Baikalov
Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr Baikalov
Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya Baikalova
Lev Durov
Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter
Georgi Burkov
Guba
Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother
