The film is set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. German soldiers slaughter Michal's wife, son and mother. Michal and his father avoid death by remaining in the forest. Michal decides to join the resistance but before his first meeting, the Gestapo kill his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. The woman appears to be a doppelganger of his murdered wife. Michal gets a job in the typhus center, where he is guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end a misery of a man mistaken by him and tortured where he seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
Un jeune homme arrive pour travailler sur le chantier d'un complexe industriel. Epaulé par un ingénieur, il tente de s'intégrer au monde des ouvriers, mais il semble cacher un lourd secret.
Kuba, un alcoolique âgé de trente ans, décide d'arrêter de boire. Mais avant d'aller à l'hôpital, il devra faire face à tous ceux qui le connaissent comme un alcoolique.
Le parcours d'un jeune étudiant, Franciszek, qui choisit d'abord d'étudier la physique, puis, peu à peu, en proie au doute et confronté à la mort, abandonne ses certitudes tout en cherchant un sens à sa vie.
At the age of 40, Wiktor Ruben (Daniel Olbrychski) returns to the family property (Wilko) where he'd spent his late teens/early twenties as a tutor of young sisters. Now they are all women - mostly wives and mothers. Wiktor discovers that Fela, once the closest to him, is now dead for some time and other sisters aren't too keen to talk about her and her grave is rather forgotten. He is also disappointed with how all the women have changed. Julia (Anna Seniuk), now a mother of two, doesn't resemble his first object of love and desire she once was and doesn't show him an affection he might expected. Jola (Maja Komorowska), seemingly unhappy in her marriage, chases him and makes fun of it, until he doesn't bring the painful memories of the past. Kazia (Krystyna Zachwatowicz), a divorcee - thus treated like less worthy than others - is the most demanding partner of his intellectual reflections while Zosia (Stanisława Celińska) is - as always - distant and outspoken. That leaves him with Tunia (Christine Pascal) who was only a child when he previously knew her but now resembles Fela. Wiktor spends time in Wilko but isn't able to see that his return restored once forgotten dreams and hopes of the sisters.
Un jeune homme envisage de trouver une situation le plus rapidement possible, quel qu’en soit le moyen. Cependant une chauffeuse de tramway qu’il vient de rencontrer possède une vision toute différente de la sienne...
Nous sommes en 1998 et le monde se trouve dans un cataclysme écologique : il y a une pénurie d'eau, l'environnement est pollué et être dehors comporte des risques élevés. Le personnage principal est un technicien de télévision, Jan, un individualiste, harcelé par les conformistes. Jan aime Ewa, une étudiante en ballet, qui à son tour est en liaison avec Allan, un homme puissant et prospère.
Tomek est un adolescent de 15 ans vivant dans une famille pauvre d'une petite ville polonaise près de la frontière allemande. Il voudrait bien se payer de beaux vêtements, un téléphone ou un ordinateur, mais il n'a pas d'argent. Il rencontre Marta, dont il tombe amoureux et son besoin d'argent devient encore plus pressant. Un jour, il est mis dans la confidence par un copain : l'argent qui lui manque, il peut se le procurer par la prostitution auprès des allemands qui passent la frontière. Un réseau dirigé par un souteneur peu scrupuleux le prend en charge, mais il n'a pas évalué le danger de cette vie.
The film's events take place over several days and they are set in the present time in a large Polish city. The main character is a bandit, a Polish dres (a Polish chav) called "Strong" (Borys Szyc), who does not work or study, and who frequently gets into conflict with the law and is in love with Magda (Roma Gąsiorowska). The relationship is not going well. "Strong" is insanely jealous of Magda, but he does not avoid sexual contact with other women. Magda is a blonde keen on going to the solarium, obsessed with her alleged overweight and appreciating good cosmetics. She loves "Strong" and hates him at the same time, deceives and manipulates him. She uses the opportunity to have a good time and looking for a rich guy with who she could leave "to the better countries". Both of them take drugs. Their relationship resembles a continuous scuffle.
In summer 1945 Tadeusz Mazur, an officer of the Armia Krajowa and veteran of the Warsaw uprising, whose wife was raped and murdered by the Germans, moves to Masuria, a region in former German East Prussia, which became part of Poland as a result of the Potsdam Agreement after World War II. He visits Róża, a widow of a German Wehrmacht soldier whose death Tadeusz had witnessed, to hand over her husband’s possessions. Róża invites Tadeusz to stay at her farm to protect her against marauders and the brutal rapes she had previously experienced in the lawless atmosphere of postwar Masuria. From this partnership of purpose, slowly respect and love arises - a "frowned-upon relationship" attracting the "unwelcome attention of the new Polish nationalists as well as the notorious Soviet NKVD".