A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.

Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.