Grusha's husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya. Her brother Nikolay is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir. For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement.

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Grusha Veselova

Vladimir Naumenko
as Vitya

Stanislav Lyubshin
as Vladimir Nikolayevich

Mikhail Ulyanov
as Nikolay

Ivan Ryzhov
as ded Savva

Oleg Novikov
as Yura

Pyotr Lyubeshkin
as Fyodor Fyodorovich

Nikolai Brilling
as Kuzma Yegorovich

Aleksey Vanin
as Aleksey

Lidiya Dranovskaya
as