Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.

• Central Television USSR
• Georgi Taratorkin
• Iya Savvina
• Larisa Naumkina
• Ludmila Shaposhnikova
• Mikhail Pogorzhelsky
• Yuriy Kuzmenkov
• Leonid Yevtifyev
• Aleksandr Lenkov