A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Lyuba

Vasiliy Shukshin
as Egor Proskudin

Ivan Ryzhov
as Lyuba's father

Mariya Skvortsova
as Lyuba's mother

Aleksey Vanin
as Pyotr

Mariya Vinogradova
as Zoya

Efimiya Bystrova
as Egor's mother

Zhanna Prokhorenko
as investigator

Lev Durov
as waiter

Aleksandr Gorbenko
as Kolya