A well-known actor, Michał Barczewski, returns to the stage after a long hiatus. He tells a reporter the story of Jacek Burda, a young and highly promising actor who once played his own death.

Ewa, a 35-year-old assistant at the chemistry department, has been hearing voices for a long time—a series of sounds that cause her to have nervous breakdowns. She becomes involved with Marek, a doctoral student at the electronics department, who, after numerous experiments, concludes that an extraterrestrial civilization has chosen Ewa as its medium. When it turns out that the cause of the voices was a quartz filling, which acts as a radio diode, Ewa tries to prevent Marek from attacking her. She does not want to lose contact with him. Although he exposes her and she gets married, they undertake joint experiments, because now he, while undergoing treatment in a closed facility, hears voices…

In 1943, in Warsaw, the Jews Alek (Lambert Wilson) and Fryda (Julie Delpy), escape from the ghetto through the sewer tunnels. Alek leaves his wife Fryda in a church and looks for help. Stephania (Hanna Schygulla), a German Christian woman of about forty years old living alone, gives shelter and food for Alek. In the night, they have an affair, and Alek, wanting to keep the protection of Stephania, lies to her. He say that Fryda would be his little sister, and Stephania brings her from the church and lodges both of them at her home. Fryda becomes jealous with the situation and performs all sort of betrayal and cruelties against Stephania. Her final revenge leads the trio to a tragic end. This movie is a tragic drama about choices in life for surviving, supported by the outstanding performance of Julie Delpy, Lambert Wilson and Hanna Schygulla and the magnificent direction of Janusz Kijovwki. Stephania chooses for helping the Jews Alek and Fryda in an occupied Poland. Alek chooses for not telling the truth about Fryda to Stephania. Fryda chooses to double-cross Stephania and Alek. Stephania chooses to have a baby. Alek chooses Stephania. In the end, he chooses for risking his life for Fryda.