Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.

1957 film by Stanisław Lenartowicz

film directed by Stanisław Lenartowicz

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War. The old woman is suspicious at first but then lets him stay. The townspeople begin to talk but he wins them over even if they feel he does not look like the man in question. With time and his gentle ways change people's disposition toward him until he decides to leave. But his supposed wife firmly brings him back and they decide to get married. An elderly nursing-home resident escapes on a mission to find the wife of a man who died after making a startling confession. The dying man tells his friend he never returned home to his wife after World War I. Once he finds her, the suspicious woman allows the man to stay and tell his story. His presence causes the townsfolk to talk about the elderly couple. Soon the man is tracked down by his own wife and must return to the old folk's home in this story of mistaken identity.