On a Warsaw construction site, out of the blue, a stretch of highway appears. Sober after a month-long party, the workers can't explain the phenomenon. The case is taken over by the Space Research Agency. At the same time, various residents of the capital experience an identical obsession - they see trash cans in everything. Affected by this obsession, Rockman tries to commit suicide. He reaches his own inner self, where he finds answers regarding the mythical history of mankind and the tragedy that has befallen it.

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

An immigrant Polish family struggle with the difficulties of living in a new country. The parents marriage suffers from their stoic stony resolve to pretend all is fine. The daughter, carving her independence, torn with her guilt and her duty to her family.

Together with the 12-year-old heroine Krysia, we go on a journey through places and times that were, that are not, and that we want to remember.

As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the democratic resistance.