Jadwiga Hanska

Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.