Halina Koman-Dobrowolska

Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp. The second is an enigmatic student he meets by chance at a railway station.

Two boys in the Gdańsk City Hall follow the trail of a 15th-century legend about children of city councilors enchanted in sculptures.

Through the fates of representatives of two generations - fathers and sons - an attempt to capture the social and moral changes caused by the industrial transformation of the country. The film consists of two novellas: "Annunciation" by Lech Majewski and "Home" by Krzysztof Sowinski.