Filip Mosz es un obrero que descubre gracias a una súper 8 los poderes de las grabaciones cinematográficas. Destinada a grabar los primeros pasos de su bebé, la cámara se convierte en herramienta de exploración y análisis del mundo: fábricas, obreros, ciudades, poblaciones, recuerdos, relaciones de poder y trabajo A medida que Filip encuentra nuevos temas, el mundo cambia. Esta actividad lo aleja de su mujer, empeora su relación con su jefe y provoca rupturas y malentendidos. Tanto su vida privada como su vida social se vuelven inestables como si el cine influyera en la realidad.
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.
Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves behind his wife, a woman of virtue and responsibility, as he goes off on his amorous drunken escapades. He is part of a lost generation whose economic and vocational prospects have been severely limited in the decades following World War II. His summer cabin on the Baltic beach is torn apart by drunken revelers to feed a bonfire in this brooding and often depressing film.
