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- Growing-up village boy Marcin Debik feels bored of existence in his native place and not interested in realizing his father's ideas for living there for ever and making business there. He dreams of living in a big town, making career there and, above all, having foreign automobile, preferably big one and of American make. His determination strengthens after he had accidentally attended some rich society's party for a while. Having finally decided to take his fate in his own hands, he takes leave of his family, his girl and departs for Lublin, the town where his uncle Lukasz runs own photographic studio. Marcin gets employed by his uncle and begins learning the photographer's trade. The boy quickly advances in the skill so that he can independently run the studio after the uncle's sudden and untimely death. Under his management the studio gets modernized, furnished with modern equipment and decorations. Introduced are new advertising methods that gathered him new clients. Soon he becomes successful. His dream to own a car may come true. Opportunity arose when a man he knew, a used cars dealer, offered him an American Pontiac. Although the car had a nice paintwork and at first glance looked "like new", it soon turned out to be almost completely worn-out jalopy that consumes fuel like mad and slowly cracks up losing part by part during driving. The resulting costs of maintenance and frequent repairs soon exceeded Marcin's financial abilities. The affair, however, did not end there but developed into unexpected final upshot.
- Film inspired by true events. Roman Jacenko (played by Jerzy Kozakiewicz), a small village local photographer, lives in a shabby garret, which serves also as his lab and studio. He loves Beata, nice clerk in a nearby bank. Having often observed established procedures of money transport to and from the bank, and having received some information unawarely revealed by Beata, he decided to rob the car with cash. To make an alibi he recorded sounds of footsteps, whistling and typical lab actions, turned the tape player on while going out to rob, and locked the room door. In a camouflage of a road crash survivor (face covered with bandage), he stopped the car with money, shot dead the security guards and badly wounded Beata. The bag with robbed money was temporarily hidden in a waste dump. He's shocked and surprised when police officer soon knocked at his door... explaining that the police's staff photographer was ill and asking him to make photographs of the crime scene. That looked for him as opportunity to obliterate the traces of the crime and create false evidence...
- There's a ringing at the door of an apartment of a worker Kaminski who hardly makes both ends meet. The guest asks for a cup of water and soon appears to be a smart and gabby peddler offering unusual service, making monidlos. (Monidlo is a term applied to a special kind of oil painting made upon a photograph i.e.a kind of "nice" (kitschy) picture, usually wedding portrait, serving as a souvenir among people of rather low esthetical taste. Common among peasants in villages, especially around the middle of the 20th century). Pressed by the cheek and expressiveness of the peddler, Kaminski becomes convinced that monidlo is a must for anyone willing to catch up on cultural behavior and have a higher prestige, and soon decides to order two monidlos, one portrait of his son Kaziu, and the other of himself and his wife. Problem arises when it comes to select suitable photographs to be used as patterns. All Kaminski had were poorly made old souvenir snapshots of various events like family reunions, funerals, social gatherings etc. They finally decide to take one from the Kaziu school identity card and another one, a group photograph taken at Kaminski's mother-in-law's funeral. The photograph showed many members of the Kaminski family, also him and his wife. The peddler promised to extract the couple's faces from the crowd to show them enlarged and embellished on the monidlo, to present them as young as they were while wedding. The decision to choose the photo is a cause for some further complications and unexpected progress of events.
- Three young friends travel round Poland and do the living acting out religious scenes and selling holy photo images at church fairs. Problems appear right after the theft of their camera.