There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Lesław Żurek
as Kamil Nowak
Anna Romantowska
as matka Kamila
Janusz Gajos
as Mieczysław Nowak, ojciec Kamila
Wojciech Pszoniak
as pacjent
Magdalena Cielecka
as aktorka
Tamara Arciuch
as lekarka
Borys Szyc
as Mareczek Kolenda
Edyta Olszówka
as eseistka, siostra lekarki
Władysław Kowalski
as publicysta
Julia Kamińska
as poetka
Sylwia Oksiuta
as studentka
Olaf Lubaszenko
as esbek
