It is Christmas Eve. Janusz, a taxicab driver, plays ?wi?ty Miko?aj for his children and then comes home as himself, crossing paths with Krzystof, to his wife and children to spend the evening there. They attend mass in the city. He spots Ewa, with whom he had a torrid affair three years ago. Ewa happens upon the church after visiting her aunt in the retirement home, the aunt is senile and mixes Ewa's ages asking if she did her homework but also inquires after her husband.
She later comes to Janusz's looking for her ex-lover, asking him for help finding her husband, who has disappeared. Janusz leaves his house saying that his taxi got stolen, his wife suspects something and suggests that he should leave it alone, he answers back that the taxi is their sole income and leaves. They spend the whole night together driving around the city and discussing past and present. Janusz still wants to go home to be with his family on Christmas evening, but Ewa is desperate and manages to keep him with her by setting up clues along the way to track her husband down. Janusz manages to catch up with her game but does not say anything.
After inquiring in hospitals and the train station, when the clock strikes seven, she reveals that she was lying to Janusz, she is no longer with her husband, they divorced right after her tryst with Janusz and he now lives with his new family in Kraków. She is now forced to face the holidays all alone while watching other families sharing the love and peace that she does not have. If she succeeded in her game, she would seek a way of moving on, if she did not, she would have committed suicide. They part at dawn, with Janusz returning to his family and Eva leaving with her loneliness.
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