Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.