To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative farm decide to take them to a fertile but remote place. A journalist and the beautiful daughter of one of them accompany them in their long journey. Folklore melodrama praising the truth and the beauty inherently tied to nature and folk rituals.

Svetlana Toma
Iluce
Victor Soțchi-Voinicescu
Andrei Gruia

Victor Ciutac
Lie Cruntu

Grigore Grigoriu
Savva Milciu

Mihail Badiceanu
Ded Iluce
Nodar Margvelashvili
Burte-Mokan
Dumitru Skipor
Sirge

Dumitru Caraciobanu
Turculete
Pavel Andreychenko
Zarhir
Andrei Baleanu
Predsedatel Kolkhoza

Georgiy Khasso
Militsioner

Nodar Piranishvili
Kapitan Barzhi