The plot takes place in a rural school environment with the emotional and professional conflicts of one of the teachers as the main motif. In the end, she becomes an enemy of the local community.
Staszek Gilarz returns to his home village. He was once a student in a school for adults from which he was expelled for improper conduct toward the teacher Marta Szymańska. He’s been away for six years. Staszek attempts to get in touch with her again. Marta is unwilling towards him and distances herself, though she also feels a strange anxiety and tension – she can’t stop thinking about him. In school conflict escalates with the principal as the teacher does not agree to allow the son of an influential stud farmer to graduate to the next grade – she does not tolerate favoritism. As a result, one of the children suffers horribly and Martha has to leave the village. Upon her return she finds out that her old student Stasiek is now the principal, as he studied and obtained a teacher’s diploma while he was away.
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