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

Subiekt Jurek accidentally ends up at a ball held in the salons of the bankrupt industrialist Porecki. He is taken for Chelmonski's counselor. Ania's parents want to marry her off to the rich Kracht, who turns out to be a hoaxer. Jurek, who is in love with Ania with reciprocity, exposes him. The director of the department store gives Jurek five times his salary. Jurek soon becomes the Poreckis' son-in-law.

The action takes place in St. Mary's Square and Oleandry. The essential scenes were shot on the St. Mary's Tower and the scaffolding surrounding it - due to the renovation being carried out at the time. It was here that the first rapprochement between the lovers took place, and here - at a height of several dozen meters - the rivals fought a fight with tragic consequences, ending in the death of the seducer.

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.