A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
| Directing | Vasiliy Shukshin | Director |
| Writing | Vasiliy Shukshin | Novel |
| Writing | Vasiliy Shukshin | Screenplay |
| Camera | Anatoliy Zabolotskiy | Director of Photography |
| Art | Ippolit Novoderyozhkin | Production Design |
| Sound | Pavel Chekalov | Music |
| Sound | Viktor Belyarov | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Ivan Shpiller | Conductor |
| Editing | Yelena Mikhaylova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | I. Baykova | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alla Dokuchayeva | Costume Design |
| Writing | Irina Sergievskaya | Script Editor |
| Production | German Krylov | Producer |
