A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991.

One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.

12岁的托梅克（Tomek）认为他的父亲阿列克（Alek）毫无缺点。阿列克刚结束在美国的长期移民生活回国，想在新的后共产主义波兰开启新生活。不幸的是，他是个酒鬼，回国后不久便旧瘾复发。托梅克和他的母亲海伦娜（Helena）不得不努力抗争，想尽办法让阿列克戒酒。结果……

A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the solution in her cooking class, she finds out that one of the men in her class is even more of a sadistic psycho than her husband, and she hatches a plan to get him to kill her husband.

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices.

A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée.

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.

Manuela and Olmo meet again in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love.