The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.

Leonid Bichevinas Doctor Mikhail Alekseyevich Polyakov
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitėas Anna Nikolayevna
Andrei Paninas Medical Assistant Anatoliy Lukich Demiyanenko
Svetlana Pismichenkoas Pelageya Ivanovna
Katarina Radivojevićas Ekaterina Karlovna
Aleksandr Mosinas Vlas
Irina Rakshinaas Aksinya
Sergey Garmashas Vasily Osipovich Soborevsky