Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is to be broadcast to England. The soloist, like his fellow musicians, is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough.

Mykola Hrynko
as Aleksandr Mihaylovich

Svetlana Smirnova
as Pregnant woman in a bath

Viktor Gogolev
as Viktor Sergeevich

Lyudmila Arzhannikova
as

Olga Volkova
as

Valentina Smirnova
as

Nora Gryakalova
as

Kirill Gun
as

Gelena Ivlieva
as Домработница

Youri Radionow
as Sergey