Based on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy...
Алиса Фрейндлих
as Lidiya Vasilyevna
Igor Vladimirov
as Rodion Nikolayevich
Тамара Совчи
as barmaid (uncredited)
Борис Токарев
as Lidiya Vasilyevna's son (uncredited)
Galina Besedina
as singer in a cafe (uncredited)
