Woman at the dentist
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
pensjonariuszka
A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
Беднаш, честный партийный чиновник, ответственен за строительство нового химкомбината. Он и его жена полагают, что их цель — создание предприятия, в котором будет удобно работать, однако их альтруистические усилия вступают в резкое противоречие с теми, кто больше всего заинтересован в собственных сиюминутных интересах.
ward nurse
A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
gość Rojeckich
A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.
Nurse
Фильм состоит из трех новелл: «На дороге», «Письмо из лагеря» и «Капля крови», которые повествуют о жизни и судьбе детей во время немецкой оккупации Польши.
Nalepianka
It tells the story of the love affair between Janka Małodworny and Hanki, the daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two have each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
