A small vessel is caught in a storm at sea. With no fuel and no radio, Boatswain Pukhov — an amateur pigeon breeder — sends two pigeons carrying a message about the tugboat’s dire situation. One of them, named Pilot, reaches land. The crew is rescued, and Pilot is given to a schoolboy from Moscow who took part in this difficult voyage.
Olya Veselova
Pukhov, Kostya's uncle
Kostya Pukhov
Seryozha Morgunov
Pyotr Grigoryevich Chub
Ivan Stepanovich Morozov
Georgiy Aleksandrovich
Andrey
Vasya
Zhenya
Alik
Volodya
Seryozha's mother
Bokov, profiteer
(uncredited)