Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.
После термоядерного удара третьей мировой войны оставшиеся в живых парижане живут в подземных катакомбах. Они предпринимают попытки путешествий во времени в надежде найти в будущем потомков и заполучить от них еду, медикаменты и энергетические установки «во имя того, чтобы прошлое и будущее помогли настоящему». Сюжет «Взлётной полосы» стал основой фильма Терри Гиллиама «Двенадцать обезьян» / «Twelve Monkeys» (1995).
An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
