An idealistic young cellist becomes dissatisfied with her relationship with a poor student who thinks primarily of money.
The heroine of Kazimierz Karabasz's film is Maria Kolano, a first-year student at the Warsaw Agricultural University, who returns to her hometown of Żabno during the summer vacations to help her parents with their fieldwork. The documentary filmmaker equips Maria with a camera.
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
