Studio Filmowe N

A forty-year-old pregnant woman working scientifically as a biologist conducts unusual experiments in her home laboratory. The plants she grows feel physical pain and fear. One day a falling tree kills a man. The incident repeats itself and people begin to say that trees want to kill. The heroine's husband, driven by resentful ambition, directs all his envy at the object of his wife's research. He prompts the city authorities to cut down all the "decayed trees" in the area in order to guard against future mishaps. The execution triggers a reaction from the forces of nature....

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

Adam has had a series of failures in his life: his aunt had just died, and his inherited apartment was flooded by a troublesome neighbor from above. The man visits her and tries to intervene. A chance meeting turns into an emotional rollercoaster, the life and happiness of the heroes at stake.

The scientists speaking in the film make it clear that hundreds of people in institutes around the world worked together in working groups on the digital breakthrough. In Poland, we did not have advanced equipment, but scientific thought did not differ in level from the West. Parallel to the political events - the Solidarity strikes, the Round Table talks, the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc - a digital revolution was taking place.

Portrait of Tadeusz Jaworski, one of the first graduates of PWSFTviT, and an unjustly forgotten filmmaker who was expelled from Poland in March '68 for his Jewish origins.

Janusz Nasfeter, one of the greatest Polish directors, talks about his childhood and youth, the events of the occupation period and after the war. These memories became an inspiration for his work.

Józef Kuraś - "Ogień/Fire" - who came from a strong highland family, was born in 1915 and lived in Waksmund. In just four years (1943 - 1947) he became first the brightest and then the most sombre legend of the Tatra Mountains. From his hatred of the Nazis, who murdered his family, through his membership in the Home Army, his "love affair" with the People's Republicans and his "career" in the UB, he arrived at an attitude of extreme opposition to communist rule and, to the end of his admittedly short life (in 1947 he was only 32 years old), he fought with his loyal squad against the people's power.