The orphanage's pupils are sent by the district Komsomol committee to eliminate illiteracy in the remote village of Penki.
Andrei Filippov
Petka

Igor Bochkin
Kuzka
Sergey Nesterov
Sanya
Viktor Mikhaylov
Vasyunya
Vadim Andrianov
Kolka
Leonid Kokorin
Khvrobushek
Konstantin Tyrtov
Rozhnov

Liliya Gurova
Avdotya

Larisa Danilina
Praskovya

Nikolai Smirnov
Fyodor
Daya Smirnova
Palashka

Artur Nishchyonkin
Egor

Valentina Khmara
Natalya

Aleksandra Kharitonova
Agafya

Inga Budkevich
Krestyanka