"Mi veredicto es: Yo, Olga Hepnarová, víctima de vuestra bestialidad, os condeno a pena de muerte". Esas fueron las famosas palabras de la asesina en masa, Olga Hepnarová, de 22 años de edad, quien en 1973 condujo un camión contra un grupo de personas inocentes en Praga.
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
