The Vampire

A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip.

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.

Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

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