A Small Town Love Affair

The young protagonist Elżbieta grew up in a small town bourgeois house She rebels against the towns atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her However the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz