The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.
Georgiy Drozd
Jordan Lyman - President of the US
Rostislav Yankovsky
James Mattoon Scott - US air force general
Aleksandr Filippenko
Martin «Jiggs» Casey - colonel in the US armed forces
Ada Rohovtseva
Esther Townsend - secretary to the President
Mikhail Danilov
Ray Clark - senator
Stanislav Korenev
Christopher Todd - secretary of the treasury
Igor Kashintsev
Fred Prentice - senator
Vladimir Dunaev
Narrator
