In the small town of Salto, Poland, a mysterious stranger arrives and disrupts the lives of its residents. As the stranger interacts with the townspeople, dark secrets are uncovered and chaos ensues. The story is filled with themes of identity, trauma, and the effects of war. The protagonist, a young poet, becomes entangled in the stranger's presence, leading to a series of life-altering events.
Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Axiliad is a drama movie set in a village surrounded by woods. The film explores the relationships between the characters, focusing on a young woman. She becomes entangled in a complicated love affair while also having vivid dreams. The story is based on a novel and touches on themes of longing, loneliness, and personal growth. The village is also home to a library where the characters gather and share their experiences. Throughout the movie, the beauty of the winter landscape and the majestic trees in the woods serve as visual metaphors for the characters' emotional journeys.
Jan and Maria meet at a party and are immediately drawn to each other. Their difficult financial situation and the scorn of society inflicted on them push them to a breaking point, culminating in a string of murders.
Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.
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.
A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.
The Linnet tells the story of a rural village in the midst of modernization. The clash between tradition and progress is explored through the lives of its eccentric inhabitants, including a village school teacher, a village idiot, and a prophet. Relationships, both romantic and societal, are tested as the village grapples with the complexities of civilization and the consequences of leaving behind old ways.
A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters.
A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.
An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.