The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...
as Nesterov
as Yevdokiya
as Frolov
as Sima
as Lida
as Irishka
as Glasha
as head of the geological laboratory
as Ivan Gavrilovich
as balalaika player
as Agrafena
as administrator in the collective farmer's house
as Lida's mother
as collective farmer-driver
as Klavdiya Suchkova
as Glasha's father
as Glasha's mother
as curious soldier woman
as female driver
as charioteer
as secretary
as collective farmer
as collective farmer (uncredited)
as Yegor (uncredited)
as old tractor driver (uncredited)
as Silantyev (uncredited)