Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...

Boris Shcherbakov
as Novikov

Oleg Borisov
as Dronov

Galina Bulgakova
as Tanya

Irina Rozanova
as Larisa

Yevgeni Matveyev
as father-in-law

Eduard Bocharov
as Kozlov

Sergey Garmash
as taxi driver

Aleksandr Feklistov
as Anatoliy

Natalya Popova
as Dronova

Nikolay Lavrov
as chief