Gabriela Mazurek

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

A tale based on the true story of Jasiek Mela, the first and youngest disabled who ever reached both the South and North Pole. The Mela family is enjoying their summer vacation on the lake completely unaware of the tragedy that is about to happen. And just when they think that the loss of a child is the worst that could happen to their family, life strikes again, and again.

After seven years abroad, Natalia returns to Poland, where she left behind her young daughter, Hela, and mother, Zofia. Determined to become a mother to her daughter again, she soon realizes it may be too late to enter Hela’s world—a world she abandoned years ago, once ruled by her domineering father.