Jadwiga Hanska

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Who Believes in Storks?

Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.