Four schoolfriends get caught in the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944. At the tragic end, their lives go in opposite directions. Will they meet again?
Four schoolfriends in Warsaw, Poland, in World War II, endure the German occupation. When the Warsaw Uprising explodes, they are sucked into the tragic events of August and September 1944. The stress buckles their friendship, and when the insurrection fails, their lives are flung in different directions, Theo and Hanna make it to the West, one to England and one to the United States, refugees in the lands of opportunity. Feliks and Stefan stay behind, one collaborates with the Russians, the other slips into the underworld of small time crime. In their own ways, they rebuild their lives.
It's 1990, the Cold War has ended, two young hopefuls arrive in Warsaw from the West, hoping to make their fortunes. But life isn't as simple as that, as they fight with ex-communist bureaucracy, and Polish mafia.