It is autumn on the Baltic coast of Poland near Gdansk. Turists have gone home, the heroes have a beach practically to themselves. There are three main heroes: He (played by Roman Wilhelmi), Ania (played by Slawomira Lozinska) and his small son Bartek. Leon Niemczyk appears briefly as a film producer in a later part of the film. An ingenious and eerie cinematography: we often look at the action from a dune above the beach. Also sometimes we do not see what the adults are doing, we only see the face of Bartek looking at them. The adult hero is a film director who gets a well deserved rest after exerting work on a film. Ania is away from her home in Warsaw because her marriage is on the rocks; this sounds like a cliché, but it is not; at some point her husband comes to visit her. Bartek is not only an observer but a very important participant - but I am not going to say more here. Literally translated, the title means: About happiness in the autumn. A film well worth seeing.
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