When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.

Sergo Zakariadze
as Giorgiy Makharashvili

Vladimir Privaltsev
as Senior sergeant Nikiforov

Aleksandr Nazarov
as Arkadiy Ershov, soldier

Aleksandr Lebedev
as Nikolay Nazarov, soldier

Vladimir Kolokoltsev
as Grisha, soldier

Yuri Drozdov
as Vova, soldier

Ivan Kosykh
as Accordionist

Viktor Kosykh
as Vasiliy Dmitrievich, boy on the cart

Viktor Uralsky
as Sailor without legs

Ketevan Bochorishvili
as Mariya, Georgiy's wife