El protagonista principal, apodado "Teddy Bear" -oso de peluche- es el entrenador de un club deportivo. Un día, cuando su equipo queda fuera de la competición, alguien roba varias páginas de su pasaporte. Todo al tiempo que su exmujer intenta saquear su cuenta bancaria en Londres. Para solucionar sus problemas, decide hacer una película...
Tres matemáticos polacos son los primeros en descifrar el sofisticado código Enigma utilizado por los alemanes justo antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Construyen réplicas de las máquinas Enigma y logran llevar dos de las máquinas a los descifradores de códigos británicos y franceses antes de la invasión alemana de Polonia en 1939; piden que se reconozca su trabajo al final de la guerra. Después de la invasión, la oficina de cifrado polaca escapa y continúa su decodificación en Argelia y Francia desocupada.
Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
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.
25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.