An ambitious moral drama addressing the difficult topic of medical ethics and dilemmas faced by contemporary medicine. Its main motive of a conflict between the humanitarian approach of a person for whom human life is the supreme value and the cruel, dehumanized system remains valid even today. An insightful and equivocal portrayal of Polish physicians, their beliefs and methods, as well as differences between them. A story of an uncompromising doctor who sacrifices his career for his beliefs and is overcome by his illness.