At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orthodox faith.
as Pavlo
as Orisya
as Dzhmil
as Denis Kriga
as Hetman Sahaidachny
as Ganzha
as Potocki
as Polish captain
as Ovsii
as Panko
as Orisya's mother
as Pavlo's father
as Cossack