Bohdan Czeszko

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.