1930년대 초 런던, 히틀러와 인터뷰한 최초의 외신기자로 주목받은 전도유망한 언론인, 가레스 존스. 그는 새로운 유토피아를 선전하는 스탈린 정권의 막대한 혁명자금에 의혹을 품고, 직접 스탈린을 인터뷰하기 위해 모스크바로 향한다. 그곳에서 존스는 퓰리처상 수상자이자 뉴욕타임스 모스크바 지국장, 월터 듀란티를 만나 협조를 청해보지만, 현실과 타협한 그에게 실망하고 만다. 하지만, 존스의 투철한 기자정신에 마음이 움직인 베를린 출신의 기자, 에이다 브룩스로부터 그가 찾는 진실에 접근할 실마리를 얻게 된다. 계속되는 도청과 미행, 납치의 위협 속에서 가까스로 우크라이나로 잠입한 존스는 마침내 참혹한 진실을 마주하게 되는데……
A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.
He considers himself a genius but the publishers refuse to print his works. He loves women but they don’t always understand him. Constantly without money and out of touch with reality. The elegant fop Daniil Yuvachov names himself Kharms- a name just as effective as his appearance. An habitué of unending literary get-togethers and a lover of scandal. Living in society he is completely separate from it. Kharms throws down a gauntlet to his time, audaciously hurling himself into the vortex of reality, just as vague and arbitrary, with the same contradictions, as represented by his spirit.
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
