Valentina - the dinning-room waitress
Vladimir Mikhailovich Shamanov - a policeman-investigator
Anna Vasilievna Khoroshikh - the dinning-room host
Afanasi Dergachov - Anna's husband
Pavel 'Pashka' - Anna's son
Innokenti Stepanovich Mechetkin - an accountant
Zinaida 'Zina' Kashkina - a pharmacist
Fyodor, Valentina's father
Ilya