An eager inventor, Fredek, develops a “telefonowizor” combining audio and video calls but neglects his fiancée Irma in the process. Public demonstrations inadvertently expose private, embarrassing moments, alienating buyers and provoking conflicts, turning his revolutionary device into a fiasco that disrupts rather than improves people’s lives.
The young Count Józio Lulewicz leads a rather dissolute life. At the urging of his friends, he tries to extract a large sum of money from his mother to start an operetta. When she refuses, he defiantly applies to a shoemaker for a job as a terminator. The distraught countess agrees to give her son the money he needs, but Józio is already head over heels in love with his boss's daughter and has no intention of giving up his new job.
Two Lviv batiars are taking care of their deceased neighbor's granddaughter.
