A musician tries to find his inner peace in a cottage within the woods.

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 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.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>

1930s Poland. Having lost the will to live after the untimely demise of his wife, Boleslaw, a healthy forester and inconsolable father-of-one, has holed himself in a secluded lodge in the heart of a dense birch forest. Defeated, grim Boleslaw wants nothing to do with the rest of the world; however, the sudden arrival of his ailing but blissful brother, Stanislaw, ratchets up the tension, triggering bitter resentment among siblings. Indeed, Boleslaw can't stand his pale-faced guest's euphoria and lust for life, and as Stanislaw begins an affair with Malina, a sensual young farmhand, things are bound to take a turn for the worse. Now, disquieting rumours that Boleslaw's deceased wife may or may not have been unfaithful spark conflict. But why do we only appreciate what we have when we lose it?—Nick Riganas