A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered".
Olga Kabo
Nadia Apfelbaum
Bogusław Linda
Ewald
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Antek
Olaf Lubaszenko
Janek
Anna Majcher
Lidka
Aleksandr Medvedev
Zdenek
Adam Siemion
Young Janek
Katarzyna Skrzynecka
Young Maria
Marzena Trybała
Maria
Magdalena Wołłejko
Assistant (uncredited)
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Colonel
Nikolai Ustinov
Soviet soldier
Sergei Yursky
Apfelbaum
Anatoly Slivnikov
Soviet soldier