A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.
