Piotr's life is not working out for him until he unexpectedly hits the cover of a popular magazine.
It is a positive and optimistic story of two thirty-something people who are made for each other, Matylda and Bartek, who are needing and looking for love and closeness, but who are constantly missing each other in the course of their lives.
“Close your eyes and look at your fears each for yourself. everyone is allowed to be. Any fear of a person coming from another space. Everyone is afraid of some person who lacks something and wants to come from somewhere." Five types on which the heroes meet their most common ailments and obsessions. Body, religion, politics, eco-activism, shamanism.
Marek, a young writer, is trying to solve the mystery of the night his friend Arthur died. In the recesses of his memory, Marek finds fragments of past events: a party at the home of an eccentric publisher, his argument with Arthur, the exchange of blows, blood. Afraid that he has killed his friend, Marek suppresses his feelings of fear and guilt in his passionate meetings with a woman who has more to do with Arthur’s disappearance than it seems...
The historical events of September 1939 are used as a canvass for the plot and the emotional structure of the script. Its composition centers around the three stages of the defense of Warsaw, accompanied by the rhythm of the Polish Radio.
September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.
In 1982, a group of Poles, including 11-year old Irek and his mother Hanna, travel by bus to Budapest to get away from the tense political situation back at home.
Careerist Maciej gives a lift to a hitchhiker with opposite beliefs as they both head to their hometowns. In the meantime, the local community gets prepared for the annual Corpus Christi procession.
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.