A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters.

Stefan Starzyński, the mayor of Warsaw, organizes life in the capital in September 1939 and lift the inhabitants' spirits via radio announcements. After the surrender, he does not use his last chance to escape.

1984 PISMAK / WRITE AND FIGHT (screenplay by Wladyslaw Terlecki based on his own novel) - Set in a prison during World War I, the film centers on a journalist who aspires to be a writer and is imprisoned with a safe-robber and a monk. His cellmates appear to him to be the perfect topic for a novel. Critic Jan Slodowki described the film as "a study in isolation told through the three voices of three people condemned to be with each other; among them, the writer, a maturing artist, his gaze fixed on himself, proves the central figure."