After 20 years, a man returns to his quiet, idyllic hometown in search of a wife only to find the community torn by a heated mayoral election.

Alina, the title pretty girl, resigns from her job at a theater in Koszalin and goes with a friend to Michalow in Podlasie. The two take a job at the community cultural center, offered to them by Mariola, Pawel's mother, who has just been appointed mayor of the town. The charismatic mayor rules with a firm hand and sets her own rules not only in the municipality, but also in the family. She is not afraid of risky investments, nosy journalists or not entirely competent officials. He pursues his son's attempts to marry Alina. The plan backfires when Wlodek - the frontman of the band Badylaże - shows up. Alina falls in love with him without memory, forgets about Paul and accepts a quick engagement. The acquaintance ends tragically....

When approached by a rich Warsaw couple to help find the ruins of a church, a villager slowly steals the identity of the woman from the capital.