The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...
Terezie Brzková
as Barbora Hlavsová
František Smolík
as Vojtěch Hlavsa
Jiřina Štěpničková
as Klára Hlavsová
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Bořík, syn Hlavsových
Jindřich Plachta
as penzista Žanta
Jaroslav Průcha
as starosta Prouza
Vladimír Řepa
as holič Kvěch
Stella Májová
as Vlasta Kvěchová
František Filipovský
as klenotník Bartyzal
Karel Dostal
as Lukáš Hlavsa
Eliška Kuchařová
as Eliška
Rudolf Hrušínský nejst.
as mlynář Ryšavý
