Emma Herdzik

To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.

Mikolaj and Ada, a middle-aged, middle-aged couple, happy slightly above the Polish average, with one daughter, Mela. Their stabilized life is complicated by the appearance of a second child, the fruit of a slip-up. How will the characters cope in the face of the new challenge?

In 1976 Sopot, Poland, three determined women navigate social and political changes as they strive to find independence, financial freedom and love.