Hotel pod żyrafą i nosorożcem

After graduating, Ania and Roman Miłobędzcy moved to the Beskid Mountains to fulfill their youthful dreams. It was here that their children were born. After a dozen or so years of farming in the Beskid meadows, they were close to bankruptcy. They took advantage of a proposal from businessman Bury and traded their Beskid farm for a villa in a town near Warsaw. Their children, Ola, Janek, and Zuza, were deeply affected by the move. The family's hopes were mixed with sadness. The parents' plan proved a disaster. Instead of a villa, they found a dilapidated wooden house, inhabited, moreover, by the quirky and eccentric Franciszek Alba. It quickly became clear that the Miłobędzcy family had fallen victim to a fraud.

Roman travels to Warsaw to meet with a lawyer. The children are tidying up the garden. A man leaves them a pet in a covered cage. Zuza inadvertently lets the mysterious furry creature out. Roman returns from the city in a foul mood. It turns out the contract they signed with businessman Bury cannot be challenged. Worse still, Roman didn't get the promised job at the university. A serious discussion about the family's future is interrupted by a terrible stench filling the entire house. The Miłobędzka family is forced to camp out in the yard overnight. In the morning, the mystery of the stench is solved. Anna manages to catch the tame polecat.

More customers are coming to the Miłobędzkis' home. They're encouraged by an old sign the children used to patch a hole in the fence. Secretly from their parents, they take in a dog for safekeeping. Anna and Roman, too, can't say no to those in need, and secretly take in more animals, both from their children and from each other. The incident seems to have happened by accident and ends in a huge uproar. When the excitement subsides, the Miłobędzkis realize that caring for animals is a lucrative business. Since Roman still can't find work, the family considers running a pet hotel.