Based on a true story. On August 8, 1956, hour by hour, the story of an accident in the Marcinelle mine in Belgium. More than 250 miners, many of Italian origin, were killed.
The residents of a grim 1970s apartment building - the owner of a neighborhood bar and his daughter, who works at the post office, a stockman of fairground junk, a maiden who dreams of becoming a model and winning the affections of the local handsome man, a lonely woman living among rubber dolls, a...
Two unemployed film school graduates, a prostitute, a handsome policeman, a mature woman and her teenage daughter. They all lead their miserable lives on the mean streets of Lódz, and try desperately to love and be loved in return.
