A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

• Mosfilm
• Vasiliy Shukshin
• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
• Ivan Ryzhov
• Aleksey Vanin
• Mariya Vinogradova
• Lev Durov
• Georgi Burkov
• Mariya Skvortsova