Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
To a couple, at the age of menopause, who are unexpectedly born a coveted son. Both the mother and father of the child, impressed by the miracle of this birth, want to give the child a name with special meaning. The name has significant religious connotations for the Polish mentality.
After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he used to lead an alternative life.
Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
When an equally lonely young rehabilitator appears in the life of widowed Zdzislaw Beksinski, it will be the beginning of a friendship that will give both of them hope.
