Stefan Szwarc

A Polish crime film in which Hieronim Śpiewankiewicz (Bogusław Samborski), the chief cashier of a Warsaw bank, steals a large sum of money and runs away with his lover Ada (Betty Amann). He is unaware that the woman is in cahoots with a gang that plans to defraud him and take the loot.

The son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka.