Ilona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the relationship between her war-disabled stepbrother Pentti and his girlfriend Irene.

Riitta Hämäläinen
Ilona Tarvainen

Sirkka-Liisa Wilén
Irene

Elsa Turakainen
Mrs. Orpana

Siiri Angerkoski

Pentti Siimes
Pentti Orpana

Matti Aulos
Mr. Orpana

Oke Tuuri
Seija Nortimo
Kaija (uncredited)
Anu Kilpiö
Siiri (uncredited)
Aino Lehtimäki
(uncredited)
Mauno Hyvönen
(uncredited)

Helge Herala
(uncredited)

Kaarlo Wilska
(uncredited)

Oiva Sala
(uncredited)

Jalmari Parikka
(uncredited)