A group of students of the last year of the local motor technical school is slowly entering adult life. An atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness reigns around them. Young people have no idea for their future, but they do not want to duplicate the pattern of a poor existence according to which their parents live. One of them, Arek, had a chance to break out of this vicious circle for a moment. The possibility of a brilliant career, fame and a lot of money was opening up to him, the Polish Junior Champion in Kickboxing. Serious heart disease shattered these plans. Arek dreams of renting a flat and freeing himself from his alcoholic father. Together with Lalka, Panicz, Mucha and Renata - his closest friends, he often visits the Kosmos pub, owned by the local mafioso Marsel. One day Marsel offers Arek and Mucha a jump: they are to break into the apartment on the top floor of a skyscraper.

Grupa młodych ludzi z małego miasteczka wchodzi właśnie w dorosłość. Nowy świat, w którym przyjdzie im żyć ma dwa oblicza. Jedno jest szare, beznadziejne, nudne ale i prawdziwe. Druge kolorowe, bajkowe, luksusowe, ale wykreowane przez mass media. Młodzi chłopcy mają do wyboru: żyć uczciwie, ale biednie w realnym świecie, albo nieuczciwie - kradnąc i kombinując - w wyimaginowanym. Czas ucieka, a decyzję trzeba podjąć szybko.