On the way from famine-stricken Moscow to the countryside, little Anyuta becomes separated from her mother at one of the railway stations. Ending up at the farmstead of a Belarusian kulak, the girl becomes an unwitting participant in the class struggle in the village.

Anyuta
Uncle Fyodor
Chief
Platon Pavlovich
Anyuta's mother
Anyuta's father
Tishka
Stepan - head of the food detachment
Danila Zhulega
Zhulega's wife
Vasil - bandit leader, ataman