Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. The understand each other's troubles and band together to avoid both the police and criminal gangs that plagued Moscow toward the end of the Soviet Union.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Andrey AndreevNot listed | Not listed |
 Oksana ArbuzovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Nina RuslanovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Denis KarasyovNot listed | Not listed |
 Irina KlimovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Valeriy PriyomykhovNot listed | Not listed |
 Yulia RogachkovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Yekaterina VasilyevaNot listed | Not listed |
 Aleksei ZharkovNot listed | Not listed |
| IIgor YurashNot listed | Not listed |
 Vyacheslav IlynNot listed | Not listed |
 Tatyana YakovenkoNot listed | Not listed |
 Daniil SpivakovskiyNot listed | Not listed |
 Igor IlinNot listed | Not listed |
 Vasiliy SedykhNot listed | Not listed |
 Alevtina DobryninaNot listed | Not listed |
| GGennadiy VoroninPolice officer | Police officer |