The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

• Dmitriy Pevtsov
• Sergei Kariakin
• Aleksey Kolubkov
• Yana Esipovich
• Evgeniy Stychkin
• Galina Tyunina
• Andrey Smirnov
• Lyudmila Porgina