1967-й год. Юная красавица Камила работает в университете секретаршей ректора и собирается замуж за Романа, занимающего ответственный пост в государственной торговой компании. Но Камила знает о своем женихе далеко не все: на самом деле Роман работает в Службе безопасности, и в его обязанности входит выявлять потенциальных врагов коммунистического режима. Такого «врага народа», замешанного в тайных связях с иностранными контрагентами, Роман подозревает в известном писателе Адаме Варчевском, но тому искусно удается изображать на публике полное отсутствие интереса к политике. Время идет, и начальство требует от Романа результатов, и тогда он решается на крайние меры: чтобы шпионить за Варчинским, он просит Камилу стать его любовницей.
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life undergoes a sudden transformation when routine testing finds out that he is HIV positive.
A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism.
