Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.

Georgi Yepifantsev
as Foma Gordeyev

Sergei Lukyanov
as Ignat Gordeyev

Pavel Tarasov
as Yakov Mayakin

Alla Labetskaya
as Lyuba

Marianna Strizhenova
as Sasha

Maria Milkova
as Sofya Medynskaya

Igor Sretensky
as Nikolay Yezhov

Gennadiy Sergeev
as Afrikan Smolin

Isay Gurov
as Ukhtishchev

Boris Sitko
as Knyazev