The film consists of eight parts: 1) Polonia, 2) The Partition of Poland, 3) To the Katorga, 4) The Galician Slaughter, 5) The Treaty of Versailles, 6) Drzymała's Carriage, 7) The Greater Poland Uprising, 8) The Wrzesińska Case. The staged passages were supplemented with documentary photos of famous localities, monuments, important events, life and achievements of the inhabitants of Poznan and Greater Poland.

After the florist dies, good people take in her daughter. She grows into a beautiful girl and becomes a dancer. Three men fall in love with her at the same time, each of them representing different character traits, and their material position is also different. The first is a count - a low-life, whose advances the girl quickly rejects. The second is a wealthy doctor, a mature and upright man, with whom the girl becomes engaged. There is also a third - a poor painter, a friend of childhood years. At some point the girl becomes convinced that it is the painter who loves her with his one and only love. So she returns the ring to the doctor, gives up her prosperity and decides to bind her poor but happy future to the painter.