The film tells about the creation of the first collective farm communes and class enmity. Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields." However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

Stepan Shkurat
as Opanas

Semen Svashenko
as Vasyl

Yuliya Solntseva
as Vasyl's sister

Yelena Maksimova
as Natalia, Vasyl's bride

Vasyl Krasenko
as Petro

Mykola Nademskyi
as grandfather Semen

Ivan Franko
as Arkhyp Bilokin

Petro Masokha
as Khoma Bilokin

Volodymyr Mikhajlov
as priest

Pavlo Petryk
as Communist Party cell leader