Stanislaw, jeune tuberculeux sortant d'un sonatorium, vient s'installer chez son frere aine, Boleslaw, garde forestier, veuf inconsolable, meurtri par la disparition prematuree de sa femme et pere d'une petite fille. Entre celui qui connait le prix de la vie car il se sait condamne et celui qui la meprise car elle lui est offerte, l'opposition eclate.
Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
The main character is a very superstitious man. On the 13th day of the month, after a very bad start to the day, he reads the newspaper and learns that he won the lottery. The unexpected happiness causing him to make a scene at work. Soon it turns out that there was an error in the newspaper and he did not win.....
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.