Joanna's parents run a clothes shop. Big, hidden income does not allow them to sleep peacefully and they want their daughter to marry poor artist-painter, because only such profession allows to justify income without suspicions.
Four victims of a quack medium find life on earth unsatisfactory in one way or another, and try to find concolation in ptent medicines or the voices from another world, kindly provided by the medium.
A 40-year-old man summarizes his tough life which brought him nothing but failure and suffering. He gets back to his memories of childhood, concentration camp imprisonment, post-war situation and failed marriage.
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets Grazyna, a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer. After some time, both spouses conclude that they can not live without each other.
