An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.

A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.

A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.

Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.