Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend’s suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she’s pregnant and must choose between her career and motherhood.

A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.

Two boys in the Gdańsk City Hall follow the trail of a 15th-century legend about children of city councilors enchanted in sculptures.