
The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.
Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist

Colonel Skuratov
Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
Soldier Petr Sviridenko
Soldier Petrov
Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev
Soldier Balandin