An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.

A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazing adventures.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.