Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Oleg Borisov
as Leonid Pleshcheyev
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Mariya
Nikolai Simonov
as Sotnikov
Tatyana Doronina
as Polina
Viktor Avdyushko
as Shalagin
Yelena Dobronravova
as Frosya Mekhotneva
Lyubov Sokolova
as Kapustina
Viktor Chekmaryov
as Moshkin
Aleksandr Sokolov
as Prokhorov
Stanislav Chekan
as Akhromovich