In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.

Boris Borisov
as Matvey

Lyudmila Zaytseva
as Anna

German Novikov
as grandfather Fishka

Sergei Medvedskiy
as Zakhar

Lyudmila Arinina
as Agafya

Valeriy Barinov
as Vlas

Andrei Brusnitsyn
as Artyomka

Aleksei Plavinskiy
as Artyom

Aleksandr Zhdanov
as Maksim

Anna Kukushkina
as Marinka