During the second Silesian Uprising in 1920, seven Basista brothers joined the insurgents to face the German forces preparing to storm the mining areas.
Artur, 45-year-old scientist, one day leaves his previous life, his family, his work and spends his whole days on the train station. None of his friends or family can understand why.
Referee Jan Laguna is about to end his long career, when strange things begin to happen in his surroundings and he soon realizes his whole life was a lie.
In September 1939 Germans invade Poland, but just two weeks later Soviet army attack Poland from the east and Polish civilians and soldiers are trapped between two empires. The fate of Polish officers is sealed once they are arrested by NKVD.