Julie loses her family and has to nd a way to keep on living. e barber, Karol, stands in a court room and is informed that his wife wants a divorce due to his inability to consummate the marriage. Valentine is a student and parttime model with a possessive long-distance boyfriend. ese three live vastly di erent lives, but are all plagued with the same feelings of emptiness. e award-winning and endlessly in uential Krzysztof Kieślowski ended his magni cent career with his magnum opus, the ree Colours trilogy.