Zenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young lady Elzbieta and a common country girl Justyna who gets pregnant.

Rena is adored by the prosecutor's son, but his father won't let them be together. The manager of the warehouse where she works is also trying to win her favor.

Engineer Nawrat, together with the mining crew, takes up the fight to save the local mine from being taken over by foreign capital.

An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.

After his business partner Otto vanishes with the company’s funds, Roman Tarski tells his wife Stefie he must work secretly by night as a waiter at the club “Alhambra.” Stefie grows suspicious of his exhaustion and odd behavior, and when she finds him drunk with the maid Kazia and her fiancé Walery, she enlists Baron Carolescu’s help to expose Roman’s deception and uncover the truth about the missing money.