In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
Vasyl LiudvynskyiTyshko, PioneerValentina VadalskayaKatia, Mariika's SisterKonstantin Milyutin-SavichVaska, ThiefSofiia DarlingKlavdiia, Brothel KeeperStepan VasyutinskiyYosyp, Crippled ManSofiia PiletskaFroskaYaroslavskyiMerchantN. SokolovaMaid
Georgiy SprantsePhysicianDmytro ErdmanFilka, Tramp
Leonid ChembarskyDandyTeodor BraininThieves Gang MemberSolomon GorvitsThieves Gang MemberDmitri FedorovskiyThieves Gang Member