Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighbouring farms.

The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).
The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.
This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.
Plot:
As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)

20世纪70年代。获刑5年的波兰传奇赌徒大舒（扬·诺维茨基 饰）刑满释放。他的妻子若娜（格拉日娜·沙波沃夫斯卡 饰）依然不相信一把年纪的丈夫此番出狱能有什么改变，已经诉讼离婚并冻结了他的财产。
厌倦了赌博生涯的大舒只想在一个没有人认识他和知道他过去的安静山区小镇买间房子安度晚年。看到苏德台一个靠近捷克边境小镇的住房销售公告，他赶往那里。然而，这里并不是让他能够忘却欺诈和赌博的地方，他的购房梦想原来是当地大亨斯特凡·米昆（莱昂·涅姆奇克 饰）的一场欺诈骗局。于是大舒装成业余赌徒，通过扑克赌局清了出老千的米昆的台面——“赢”了在当时可以买一套房子的1万5千兹罗提。
当地的出租车司机尤雷克（安杰伊·皮耶琴斯基 饰）是个点背的赌徒，见此情景，决心要成为大舒一样的赌坛高手。尽管大舒准备金盆洗手，想离开卢廷小镇，但见尤雷克一心要追随他，只好晓以利害，让他知道赌徒生活的阴暗面。可尤雷克并没害怕，而且也确实有些赌博方面的才华。于是大舒带他离开小镇来到省城，向他传授自己的“赌”技......