Jerzy Pomianowski

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.