Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp. The second is an enigmatic student he meets by chance at a railway station.

Marcin, 28, is an unemployed polonist trying to get back together after splitting from his girlfriend.

Kuba works part-time in the afternoons delivering pizza to pay back his mother the money he borrowed to buy his dream motorcycle. His father, a stock market investor, disapproves of his son's decision. One day, after returning from school, Kuba finds the motorcycle chained to the garage wall. A conversation with his father is fruitless. Frustrated, the boy saws through the chain, takes his father's revolver, and runs away from home. He sets off with Robert for the Bieszczady Mountains. At the same time, a series of robberies at gas stations takes place in the southeastern corner of Poland.

This is the story of a man who travels the country alone, dragging all his small possessions behind him on a cart he has constructed. His attitude causes a variety of reactions from people - from kindness to outright dislike and intolerance.