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.
Ivan Novoseltsev
Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov (as I. Novoseltsev)
Yelena Kuzmina
Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova (as E. Kuzmina)
Aleksey Dolinin
Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin (as A. Dolinin)
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist (as A. Chistyakov)