The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful.

Jasiek and Olga photograph waterfalls, while Hela and Zuza take cheeky portraits of the Pope. Together, the four friends enjoy cycling trips, admiring the views, bathing in streams, and passing around a joint. It sounds like the perfect recipe for summer lightheartedness—until the instincts suppressed by relationship routines awaken.

A young archeology student comes to Królowy Most to study the cellars under the church. She finds there a collection of historic documents which may have an enormous impact on the future and prosperity of the village.

A young mother disappears on the slopes of the sacred Ślęża mountain, leaving behind a pushchair with her baby. A police officer, a young husband and a retired clairvoyant try to reconstruct the last moments before she vanished. A female police officer with a personal childhood connection to Mount Ślęża stands in for the missing wife.

The story of a Father, professor, lecturer, psychologist and his 19-year-old Son. The Young One has had enough of his Old Man's lecturing and life advice. He slams the door and sets off on a hitchhiking journey. On this journey to nowhere, he never knows who he will meet and who is in the next car.

Bartek Sowinski hid two Jews in his home during World War II. In an act of a crime incomprehensible to himself, he commits their murder. Years later, in 1971, while serving a sentence in prison, he records his confessions on tape for his two-year-old grandson Marcinek. These intimate memories are not only an account of the tragic events, but also a journey into the depths of his tormented soul, full of pain and questions about morality.