In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
Irina Insarova
Mariika
Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Tyshko, pioneer
Valentina Vadalskaya
Katia, Mariika's sister
Konstantin Milyutin-Savich
Vaska, thief
Sofiia Darling
Klavdiia, brothel keeper
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
Yosyp, crippled man