An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

A short crime film set in a fairground.

Two soldiers discuss the future in a small café. Their conversation is interrupted by an elegant French woman who visits the café.

Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures.

PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.