
A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.

as Adam Małecki

as Marta Małecka

as Professor

as Nowicki

as Andrzej Jezierski

as Doctor

as Priest

as Zbigniew Woźniak

as Staszek

as Patient

as Former Camp Prisoner

as Gosia

as Doctor

as Ward Nurse

as Nurse

as Nurse

as Journalist

as Antosia (uncredited)