Tractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns into an invitation to him to play the role of a rural guy who moves to the city. Pronka rehearses with pleasure, but realizing that staying means never seeing her native village again, she runs away from the director.
| Directing | Pyotr Vayntrub | Director |
| Writing | Vasiliy Shukshin | Original Story |
| Camera | Yu. Balyasnikov | Director of Photography |
| Art | G. Malyugina | Production Design |