A coal mine director invites Jacob, a TV series star, to add splendor to the celebration of St. Barbara's Day, the patroness of miners. Basia, a worker from the sorting department, is chosen to hand Jakub the welcoming loaf of bread. The two completely different worlds come together: flashy, success oriented strangers from Warsaw and traditional, modest and unwilling to change Silesians.
Silesian-born Jörg and his friend Andreas return after years to visit their old pals Gienek and Jerzy in an Upper Silesian village - Jörg arrives full with gifts, convinced that life in Poland must still be hard. To his surprise, he discovers that much has changed, and Poland is no longer the poor country he remembered.
Kant-Pol or the Republic of Kantians. This is a country where fraud in every respect is the order of the day. A CEO who has his office in a tasza, a musician who can't play without a floppy disk, and a driver who drives on left documents after a deadbeat. Young people who are dangerous. The police can't do anything on their own. Silesia is a broken vessel...
