His family life is oppressive due to constant nagging by his wife, who wants to move to a bigger apartment.

Włodek's life changes when he meets a young woman, Irena (Małgorzata Braunek), who fascinates him with her striking appearance and impressive vocabulary.

One critic remarked: "the film's stale misogyny doesn't reflect well on [Wajda] ..."[2] Accepting the criticism, Andrzej Wajda wrote later: "I willingly accepted Janusz Glowacki's film script without giving it much thought.

Driven by frustration of temporary personal misadventures, I decided to settle the score with women who try to control men's lives.

As a 2016 reviewer writes: "With Hunting Flies Andrzej Wajda clearly deviated from his usual style and gave us a satiric bitter-sweet picture of young adults being trapped in various social deals, family issues, class system (still visible) – just like eponymous flies stuck to a flypaper.