Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

Leopoldina Bălănuță
Mara

Maria Ploae
Persida

Florin Zamfirescu
Trică

Mircea Albulescu
Butcher Huber

Andrei Finti
Hans

Irina Petrescu
Sister Aegidia

Ion Caramitru
Priest Codreanu

Florina Cercel
Marta

Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan
Burdea

Petre Gheorghiu
Tanner Bocioacă

Monica Ghiuță
Podăriţa
Jean Reder
Liubiceck
Petre Gheorghiu-Goe
Adrian Georgescu
Constantin Sasu