Irena Karel

In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.

In the middle of the 21th century, a spaceship loses its bearings, and the commander of another space crew, seemingly on a routine check flight, decides to investigate.

A young Austrian lieutenant Alfred Kiekeritz, who is stationed in a small Galician town, wants to give some meaning to his life in the last phase of WWI. He starts to collect works of art.