The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished veteran of the Great Patriotic War and former camp guard, accidentally meets one of his former prisoners. This encounter leads to new meetings—and new insights into the years that have passed...

Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Николай Дмитриевич Кузнецов

Mikhail Ulyanov
as Иван Саввич

Aleksey Petrenko
as Василий Васильевич Пухов

Aleksandr Filippenko
as Юрий Петров

Leonid Nevedomsky
as парторг

Natalya Popova
as жена Кузнецова

Maksim Gdanovskikh
as сын Кузнецова

Valeriy Priyomykhov
as Рудич

Aleksandr Arzhilovskiy
as

Vitali Bykov
as