In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.

Yelena Kuzminaas Anna
Faina Ranevskayaas Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vladimir Solovyovas Vasil, Anna's brother
Ada Vojtsikas Vanda
Mikhail Astangovas Stanislav Komorovsky
Mikhail Boldumanas Zygmunt Dombek
Rostislav Plyattas Yanek, cabdriver
Boris Volchek