Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930s music on a piano. He gets involved with his brothers problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brothers dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the brothers death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wifes memory and making up with his little daughter.