The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
Historia real de la escuadra del oficial Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzañski, quien después de que Polonia fuera invadida por las fuerzas del Eje en 1939 no renunció ante los invasores alemanes y siguió luchando.