Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.
Leopoldina Bălănuță
as Mara
Maria Ploae
as Persida
Florin Zamfirescu
as Trică
Mircea Albulescu
as Butcher Huber
Andrei Finti
as Hans
Irina Petrescu
as Sister Aegidia
Ion Caramitru
as Priest Codreanu
Florina Cercel
as Marta
Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan
as Burdea
Petre Gheorghiu
as Tanner Bocioacă