A charlatan doctor and an equally fake medium offer their own brand of palliatives to a series of gullible people in this routine drama by Polish director Tadeusz Rozewicz. The stories of each of the duped victims is told separately, though the overarching moral seems to be that if people have nothing in which to believe then they are easy prey for shysters. "Doctor" Aksamitowski (Kasmierz Rudzki) and the medium (Wanda Luczycka) are working together. In a switch from the usual, she does not speak for the dead but with voices coming from extraterrestrials. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi