The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.

Ludwik Benoit
as Stangret

Marian Lupa
as Wojciech

Mieczysław Pawlikowski
as Jan Zieliński

Karol Podgórski
as Paweł

Barbara Rachwalska
as Magda

Barbara Jakubowska
as Maryśka Florkówna

Janusz Paluszkiewicz
as Comrade Krychal

Wojciech Pilarski
as Mazur

Karol Ocetkiewicz
as Łysy

Jan Palichleb
as Bartosik