1981. Janek is a caretaker in the Women’s Clothing Factory in Chorzęciny. This witty Casanova is a piece of a two-faced bastard. Thanks to his charisma and determination he’s able to wrap around his finger two women with strikingly different worldviews: Anna, a tailor and a member of the local division of “Solidarity”, and Wanda, a major in Security Service and a devoted communist. Janek cleverly hides the existence of “the other one” from his lovers – he has a thought-out strategy. He can change the interior of his cubbyhole in a wink of an eye: he flips the portrait of John Paul II the other way around so it reveals the image of Lenin, he changes the tune from Kaczmarski to soviet songs, in one moment he pours cold vodka to then toast with wine in the next one. The protagonist knows that playing a double game is very beneficial: Wanda, a member of the SB, turns out to be a real domina in a bedroom with a suitcase filled with sex-gadgets imported from West Berlin, and with the kind-hearted Ania he finds bliss and serenity that “could only be broken by the martial law” –Janek says it as a joke that turns into horrid reality after the speech given by the boss of State Defence Committee. The action gathers momentum; Anna leaves her lover with a black suitcase full of “Solidarity’s” money that the Secret Service is after. And which is eventually swapped with the one containing all of Wanda’s sex-gadgets after she makes Janek’s cubbyhole into her operational base with the help of dim-witted officer of the militia. But Janek can count on the divine help in his childhood friend, priest Wiesiek. In order to confine the truth of his polyamorous nature, the hero reaches the heights of the art of manipulation: he pretends to be the leader of the local “Solidarity”, he creates a funeral in Radom of his non-existing sister who was a nurse, a hooker, and a drug addict at the same time. Anna gets hidden in the closet while Wanda is handcuffed to the pipe in the bathroom wearing only her undergarments. Even his cassock wearing friend can’t be spared when he has to declare that his soul is as red as the flag of USSR. Wiesiek and Janek miracously avoid getting arrested and the “Solidarity’s” money finally find refuge in the Bishop’s theological seminary...
The author is a real virtuoso when it comes to the convention of farce, he winks at Cooney, and we can find quotes from The Sting in one of the props. The effect is a hilarious comedic farce cast in our absurd sauce.