A renowned surgeon, abandoned by his wife and daughter, gets robbed and loses his memory. Wandering around the countryside, he becomes a village healer and performs operations.

Grand Duke Konstanty marries Countess Joanna Grudzińska. However, Joanna still loves Major Łukasiński, and she agreed to the marriage out of a sense of patriotic duty. Łukasiński is arrested. The November Uprising breaks out. The conspirators capture Belweder Palace. Joanna hides Konstanty from them.

An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.

A young man joins the revolutionary movement in 1905, aimed at Tsarist occupiers of Poland. The members of the secret organization conspire to take the life of a noted Russian general.

Engineer Nawrat, together with the mining crew, takes up the fight to save the local mine from being taken over by foreign capital.

Seven young men gather at a manor in August 1914 to form the nascent First Uhlan Regiment, riding off to war amid budding loves and sudden loss. Fifteen years later, the survivors reunite and confront how the conflict irrevocably altered their lives and relationships.

A group of scouts is on vacation in the mountains, and the surrounding area is also a base for poachers and smugglers. One of the scouts encounters a poacher in the forest who is finishing off a deer he has wounded. The boy tries to save the animal, leading to a confrontation with the illegal hunter, who uses a weapon. Alerted, the group begins to pursue the bandit.