خلاصه داستان : در قرن نوزدهم ورشو اتفاق می افتد. بی حوصلگی اشراف زادگانی که از حقوق بازنشستگی خود مطمئن هستند و برای انجام ریسک های تجاری جدید تنبل هستند، ووکولسکی را ناامید می کند. توانایی او برای پول درآوردن قابل احترام است، اما فقدان رتبه خانوادگی و اجتماعی او مورد تحقیر قرار می گیرد.

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of 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 "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

خلاصه داستان : "مچیک" مبارز جوان نیروهای مقاومت،ماموریت پیدا می کند"اشتوتکا" یکی از رهبران کمونیست را در آخرین روز جنگ جهانی دوم به قتل برساند."اشتوتکا" نیز مانند او یک سرباز است و او باید تصمیم بگیرد که از دستوراتش پیروی کند یا نه؟

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.