Barbara Wrzesińska

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.

A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.