Для родителей самым важным является благополучие их ребенка. Поэтому, когда брак разваливается на глазах и жизнь рядом уже невозможно, ребенок остается с матерью. Отец не может принять такое решение суда и хочет оставить ребенка с собой. Но перед тем как сделать это он должен доказать всем, а так же себе, что злоупотребление алкоголем, секс с малознакомыми женщинами, тяжелая работа в кинематографе, которая требует много сил и времени за пределами дома, не могут помешать мужчине стать хорошим отцом. Более того, он должен доказать, что маленькому трехлетнему созданию, которое ещё не воспринимает жизнь серьезно, любви одного отца будет достаточно для полноценной жизни…
Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
