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- A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to start a new life in picturesque town in south-east Poland - Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish - Jewish relations and real findings of his work - that roots of some legends are fantasy, not a grain of truth...
- The end of the 19th century. The army of the Tsar breaks up an illegal rally, a living baby is lying next to the body of a dead woman. Gabriel picks up the baby and brings her brother home. That same night his sister-in-law gives birth to a boy - Kamil. A girl, Teresa and Kamil, found on the street, are brought up under the care of the overbearing Jadwiga. Unfortunately, soon Gabriel and Kamil's father will be sent to Manchuria by the authorities.
- Karolina is a teacher in a small town whose life seems somewhat bleak and empty until she meets Jan, in town to take part in a seminar for young businessmen. They fall in love, but when Karolina goes to visit Jan in his hometown of Warsaw, she is followed by a twelve year old boy who is 'in love' with the teacher. When she discovers the boy has no money or return ticket, she tells him to wait for her while she visits Jan. The date, however, turns out to be nothing like she had expected.
- The action of the series takes place in the years 1883 to 1893 on Polish lands under Russian rule. The main character, Marcin Borowicz, begins his education at the junior high school in Klerykowo (Kielce in the series). There he encounters Russification, which he initially unconsciously succumbs to.
- A young women in love with her Fiancé and has a great relationship with her father leaves them behind for a temporary opportunity in Germany. She gets on a train bound for Germany as her fiancé follows the train on a motorcycle as he waves goodbye . It cuts to 8 months later as she returns home and appears to have aged some and appears emotionally drained. She never communicated with her family and fiancé while she was away and tells her fiancé it's over between them upon return with no explanation . It appears some traumatic event took place while she was away. When she returns home her estranged mother informs her that her father has died while she was gone.
- The title family, the Badziewiak family, are jokingly called "sitkonia" by the authors, they have a form never seen before on public television. Each episode is recorded live at the Jewish Theater in Warsaw. The intention of the creators of the series is to be a parody of popular Western "sitcoms", or tapeworm soap operas with a characteristic laugh, sounding from time to time from the so-called off. As the title indicates, the series' collective hero is an average Polish family, treated with a pinch of salt.
