Second half of the 1960s.
Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...
Борис Щербаков
as Novikov
Олег Борисов
as Dronov
Galina Bulgakova
as Tanya
Ирина Розанова
as Larisa
Евгений Матвеев
as father-in-law
Эдуард Бочаров
as Kozlov
Сергей Гармаш
as taxi driver
Александр Феклистов
as Anatoliy
Наталья Попова
as Dronova
Николай Лавров
as chief
Marianna Strizhenova
as mother-in-law
Vladimir Osipchuk
as Safonov