City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.
Polonia, 1981. En una ciudad costera, Janek, un chico de 18 años, hijo de un capitán de la Marina, monta una banda de punk-rock. Su vida es la música y su primer gran amor Basia, pero las cosas para Janek están a punto de cambiar. Mientras que huelgas masivas organizadas por “Solidarnosc” (Federación Sindical autónoma e independiente de raíces cristianas) se extienden por toda Polonia, el Partido Comunista planea, en secreto, imponer la ley marcial. La tensión crece en todo el país, las rebeliones juveniles van en aumento.