A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former entrepreneur who, after the war, holed up in a small town as a craftsman. The boy's mother is a beautiful and subtle woman, raising children and raising a home. Through the house of Witek's parents there is a gallery of picturesque characters who are perceived by the child warmly and with humor.
