The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.
as Elżbieta Jabłońska
as poeta Fabian Miłobrzeski
as Irena, koleżanka Elżbiety
as Matka Elżbiety
as inżynier Edward Soniewicz
as Mężczyzna w kapeluszu na rynku
as ksiądz Ryba
as Amelia Brygierowa, koleżanka matki Elżbiety
as Wariat Turlej