Anna Wróblówna

Christmas is an occasion for four friends to summarize the previous year of their lives.

In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.

Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.

1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.