A well-known financier and his bankrupt friend, who plan to rob a corrupt politician-bribe, a policeman who loves to fatten up demonstrators, and two ladies of lighter disposition are locked up in a boarding house for hours at a time by a sanitation official for a whole 10 days - a forced quarantine.
When an equally lonely young rehabilitator appears in the life of widowed Zdzislaw Beksinski, it will be the beginning of a friendship that will give both of them hope.
A historical, elegiac fresco about Jews living in small towns of provincial Poland before World War II. The last living witnesses remember not only the joint life of Polish and Jewish communities but also the cruel time of the war.
