In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run.

• Zinoviy Gerdt
• Marina Vlady
• Anna Yanovskaya
• Sergei Desnitsky
• Gennadiy Nazarov
• Taras Kolyadov
• Yura Laparev
• Vladimir Sakalov