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A psychological and family drama set on the eve of the introduction of the martial law in Poland, with a sharp portrayal of the political situation of that time.
A less known film by Wiesław Saniewski, a director openly opposing the communist authorities, author of “Nadzór”, one of the best known shelved films of the 1980s.
The film exposes the mechanism of communist propaganda and falsifying reality in the times of the People’s Republic of Poland.
It is 1981. Paweł, an épée fencer, who turned to alcoholism and thus destroyed his promising career, decides to fix his life. Soon, however, he learns that his ex-wife left for Austria and took their few-year-old son with her. Paweł, with his lover Majka, is determined to find the boy. He borrows a car and goes after them. He is ready to do anything it takes to win his son back, crossing the respective borders, not only the geographical ones. When he finally finds them, he kidnaps the child and escapes with him to Poland, where he is welcomed like a national hero. The world opens up before him, but not without a price which involves sacrificing what he allegedly has been fighting for.
