Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men

Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.

A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.

Basia and her aunt live in peace far away from war efforts. One day that peace is shattered when a concentration camp prisoner, a communist activist seeks refuge in their house.

An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.