In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.

Vera Yanukova
Sonka
Nadezhda Yermakovich
Margarita Ivanovna

Mariya Goricheva
Engineer Sadovskiy's mother

Mikhail Astangov
Kostya Kapitan

Borys Dobronravov
Director Gromov

Aleksandr Cheban
Big official

Mikhail Yanshin
Maks

Borys Tamarin
Engineer Yuriy Sadovskiy

Gennadi Michurin
Botkin

Pavel Olenev
Sasha
Konstantin Nazarenko
Limon

Aleksandr Antonov
Vanya (uncredited)
Vasili Bokarev
Camp superintendent (uncredited)

Mark Bernes
Convict (uncredited)

Konstantin Gradopolov
Pyzhov (uncredited)