Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.

• Gorky Film Studios
• Vsevolod Sanayev
• Anastasiya Filippova
• Marta Grakhova
• Aleksey Vanin
• Leonid Kuravlyov
• Leonid Reutov
• Viktor Shakhov
• Nikolay Grabbe