The main character, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances, is a manager of a sports club in Poland. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament. It appears that somebody has torn out a few pages from his passport. It occurs to him that perhaps his ex-wife has done it in order to get her hands on their joint account in a London bank. Therefore, he has to get to London as soon as possible in order to transfer the money to a different bank. The solution is taking part in a movie, made by his friend. The script requires a double role, thus the search for another actor is announced. The double has to apply for the passport, and that is solved through a girlfriend who agrees to play the dope's new fiancée. At the engagement party he is slipped a drug, and Teddy Bear runs off to the airport with the false passport. On the plane, however, he meets his ex-wife...

A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...

Dans une petite communauté rurale cernée par les forêts, près de la frontière tchèque, dans le sud de la Pologne, Janina Duszejko, ingénieure à la retraite et professeure d'anglais bénévole à l'école, vit en communion avec la nature. Cette défenseuse farouche de la vie animale, férue d'astrologie et de promenades solitaires, combat avec détermination l'amour de la chasse qui unit presque tous ses concitoyens mâles. Un jour, l'un de ses voisins, braconnier notoire, est retrouvé mort. C'est le début d'une série de mystérieux meurtres