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Daniel goes to a party where he can't find his place. By coincidence, he gets involved in paying a delivery girl for a stack of pizzas.
Ania and her best friend Kasia have fallen out. When Kasia destroys her graduation paintings out of frustration, Ania feels guilty and wants to apologise but realises there is more to her friend’s behaviour than meets the eye.
The film protagonist operates on the border of two worlds. During the day, he works at a well-known shop selling home furnishings, while after hours he is hired by a “cleaning company” to clean homes after the deaths of their residents.The title “A Story of Short Duration” is a reference to the diagnosis of contemporary capitalism provided by Kacper Pobłocki in his book. In the film, it acquires an additional meaning by contrasting the image of a life’s end with the beginning of one’s path related to the moving into a new flat.
