Marta Siemińska, a woman in her thirties, is an accountant. Up to her ears in a quarterly balance sheet report, she discovers some serious misappropriation that leads to an internal investigation. Soon afterwards, Marta bumps into Jacek, a university classmate. Her monotonous life – a routine of daily rituals – slowly begins to change. The woman balances the books of her marriage, and it doesn’t look good: her husband comes out boring. The renewed acquaintance with Jacek turns into an affair.

The third adaptation (previous ones from 1911 and 1933) of one of the most popular and certainly most controversial novels written by Stefan Żeromski. Meticulously precise in historical details and visually stunning, the film is faithful to its literary original – a tragic story about beautiful and sinful Ewa Pobratymska pushed by love to the bottom of humiliation. “[…] ‘The story of sin’ is first of all a story of love and love is a part of human existence”, said the director in an interview. “The adaptation of this book was a perfect pretext to make a popular film – a melodrama that would move people just like the book used to move its readers back then.”