Director: Michał Waszyński
1939
Gabriela receives a Malczewski painting for her name day, while her husband, Professor Turwid, is working on a vaccine against encephalitis that fails to gain recognition from the medical community. Convinced of his wife's betrayal, he fakes his own death, secretly leaves home, and spends ten years working as a pharmacist’s assistant. When an epidemic breaks out in Warsaw, Turwid returns to the capital to resume his research and complete the work of his life.