수줍음 많은 우체국 직원인 도메크는 맞은편 아파트에 사는 연상의 독신녀 마그다를 망원경으로 몰래 훔쳐보며 사랑을 느낀다. 마그다를 진심으로 사랑하게 된 도메크는 그녀의 아파트에 우유를 배달하고, 가짜 송금표를 만들어 그녀를 우체국으로 오게 하고, 마그다의 편지를 몰래 훔치고, 마그다가 사랑을 나눌 때 가스 고장 신고를 하는 등, 항상 그녀의 곁을 맴돈다. 그러던 어느 날 자신이 보낸 통지서를 가지고 송금을 받으로 온 마그다가 오히려 송금을 조작했다는 누명을 뒤집어쓰고 우체국을 나서는 것을 보게 되는데...
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.
The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
