Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...

A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...

Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioral problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has...

Begins on the 56th day of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis during World War II. A ragtag group of trained and untrained Resistance fighters hold on to the front line. They try to live a relatively normal life, and even find time to play the piano. They achieve small victories, but must retreat into the sewers in order to survive.

From Jan Jakub Kolski comes the story of a famed military officer nearing the end of his own life. Before he can rest in peace, he must fulfill the traditional obligation of passing his sword on to his grandson. The problem is, his son is unmarried and there are few prospects. After much scheming, a potential mate moves into the neighborhood."--Polishflix.com website.

In separate stories, four characters: a college professor, an army officer, a priest and a criminal, struggle to decide between career and love.

Janosik, a legendary hero of the Tatra Mountains, is chief of a band of outlaws. The band robs the rich and helps the poor who are oppressed by the local aristocrats.

Tells the story of two scrap metal pickers, Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused of raping the sister of a local thug which leads to tragedy and joy as Edi is made to care for her little baby.

A young boy steals a limousine to gain entry into a gang of thieves, but the trouble this causes gives him second thoughts.