Warsaw, Stalinist times, 1953. A renowned writer, the mysterious Mr. T., lives in a hotel for writers. He hides his ironic view of the surrounding reality behind dark glasses. Mr. T. supports himself by tutoring a beautiful high school graduate in Polish, with whom he has a relationship that goes beyond helping her write essays. Mr. T.'s life becomes even more interesting when a boy from the province becomes his neighbor and makes him her idol, the high school graduate decides to make a certain confession, and he himself falls into the eye of the secret political police. A film inspired by real Polish writers, showing those times as an era full of absurdities, in which terror mixes with secretly playing forbidden jazz, and in the toilet you can come across the most important person in the country.