Janusz Bylczynski

A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life. (imdb)

In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. The station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur. The young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. (imdb)

Andrzej and Magda both fail to enter college. She starts working as a nurse, He tries his luck in petty theft. They meet in a single room, which they both rented.