A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

A woman desperate to improve her social standing goads her husband into buying pajamas - a symbol of high status.