The returning soldier Kuzma Kadkin on the train tells how well he lived before the war, and that everyone in the area knows him. An accidental fellow traveler, a young mother, leaves her child, a one and a half year old boy, Kadkin, to run away at the junction for water, but lags behind the train. Kuzma has no choice but to bring the baby home...
| Writing | Anatoli Vekhotko | Writer |
| Directing | Anatoli Vekhotko | Director |
| Writing | Pavel Vasilyev | Writer |
| Art | Valeri Yurkevich | Production Design |
| Camera | Aleksandr Chechulin | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Natalya Troshchenko | Director |
| Writing | Natalya Troshchenko | Writer |
| Sound | Grigori Elbert | Sound |
| Sound | Natalya Avanesova | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nelli Lev | Costume Design |
| Editing | Anna Babushkina | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Izabella Perkatova | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Igor Tsvetkov | Original Music Composer |