From the earliest times, people have wondered what awaits them after death? And although no one has managed to penetrate the core of the mystery, over the centuries there have been people who ... knew and saw more. Fulla Horak, St. Faustina Kowalska, Bl. Father Stanisław Papczyński and St. Padre Pio - these are mystics who received the grace of being visited by the souls in Purgatory and who for a moment could see the final judgment, heaven, hell and what is most mysterious - purgatory.
In the near future an indifferent activist announces that at midnight on New Year’s Eve he is going to commit suicide in protest against the renewed slavery system in Poland. His plan is put on hold the moment he finds an abandoned slave woman in the trash and decides to help set her free.
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
2차 세계 대전 시기, 미국의 원자폭탄개발 계획에 참여했던 폴란드 출신 유대인인 천재 수학자 스타니스와프 울람의 전기에 기초한 작품. 1930년대 동생과 함께 전쟁을 피해 미국으로 건너온 수학자 스탠은 하버드에서 강의하다가 자리를 잃게 된 후 미국 체류에 문제가 생긴 차에, 친구인 헝가리 출신의 천재 수학자 존 폰 노이만으로부터 비밀스런 프로젝트를 제안 받는다.
2차 세계대전 한창 때, 폴란드 전쟁 영웅 ‘얀’은 런던에서 폴란드 저항운동 지휘관과 폴란드 정부 사이에서 중요한 기밀 정보를 전달하는 첩자 역할을 하며, 조국의 승리를 위한 용기의 사나이가 된다. 모든 주변 국가의 운명이 달린 결정적인 정보를 가지고 폴란드로 가는 임무를 띤 ‘얀’은 영원히 그의 삶을 바꿀 사람들을 만나게 된다.
Jack, an unappreciated American writer in his sixties, comes to the off-season peninsula of Hel in the north of Poland and isolates himself to write a script. He meets Kail, a local who earns money by making lie-detector tests. Jack doesn't find any inspiration until some tourists mysteriously disappear - one of them found dead with his tongue cut off. Kail, persuaded by his friend Mila that Jack is the murderer, begins an investigation. The truth turns out to be more twisted when he discovers that Jack is writing about him.
The main character is a young playboy, never cared about money - first claimed by his mother, now makes it a rich wife. In such a case it is the best material for a husband and father? How far a desperate woman to give birth to a child and that the ideal hero will cope with the challenges of fatherhood?
