After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.

A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.