Gordey Yaroshchuk
Katya, Gordey's daughter
Boris Eidelman
Counterintelligence officer
Morgue watchman
Set in Odesa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Hordiy Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Katya who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.