 Takes place in a pre-war Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930 s music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother s problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother s 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 brother;s death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife s memory and making up with his little daughter.