A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladder. But the whirlpool of compromises and corruption eventually threatens to render his life meaningless.
A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.
A young woman tries not to become conformist like her parents, while her fiancee who had similar views, gradually became one. However it turns out that she cannot distance from her own background either.