A film made in the prime time of cinema of moral anxiety, showing the power of solidarity and unity in the victorious fight with injustice. A quest for truth and stigmatizing a conman is encountered with a brutal defense of the community, bullying and ostracism. Only mutual help and friends’ support help the truth eventually have the upper hand.
An electronic engineer – Witek is particularly sensitive to falseness and is against all impostors and promoting people without knowledge or professional achievements. He discovers that one of the directors employed in the enterprise where he works, copied a PhD theses of an English publishing house. He decides to make the fraud public, which encounters a strong reaction of the director’s inner circles. A few people want to eliminate the threat, so Witek is sacked and his wife bullied whereas his daughter is expelled from the kindergarden. The local community is strongly against him, the whole family experience their growing reluctance. It seems like nobody needs the truth, which seems harmful. A journalist from a Warsaw newspaper comes to visit his old friend. They were friends at studies, once – with a few other people – they were a tightly knit group. The journalist wants to help Witek, he contacts people they both knew in the past. Thanks to joint support Witek gets back his job and is promoted. The family decide to start from scratch with the help of proven friends.
