The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.

Kazimieras Vitkus
as Lokys

Regimantas Adomaitis
as Donatas

Bruno O'Ya
as Bronius

Juozas Budraitis
as Jonas

Algimantas Masiulis
as Mykolas

Donatas Banionis
as Vaitkus

Vija Artmane
as Ona

Eugenija Šulgaitė
as

Danguolė Baukaitė
as Aldona

Bronius Babkauskas
as Marcinkus