Roman Cudakowski, for his friends Cudak, plays in a band at weddings and city parties. During the occupation, the musician did not do well. Entrances to the premises for Germans are an opportunity to earn money. However, they cannot imagine themselves orchestras without a violinist. Cudak takes the gifted Szymon Akerman out of the ghetto to concerts, with whom he did not agree before the war. In the new reality, they both need each other: Cudak can earn money by playing with Akerman, has a chance to survive. One day, Roman decides to permanently take the violinist and his family from the ghetto and hide them, risking his life, in his home.
The story of a singer who, at the peak of her fame, was in a car accident and ended up chained to a hospital bed. For 12 days, the rising star Anna Herman did not regain consciousness. In those days, she had to relive the tragic events of her childhood - the arrest of her father, accused of espionage, the wanderings of their orphaned family in Central Asia, the death of her little brother, the war and escape to Poland in the hope of hiding from her pursuers from the NKVD ... First love and first success ... None of the doctors believed that she would survive. And even if this happens, she was predicted to be completely immobile for the rest of her life. However, after 12 days in a coma, heaven gave her a chance to start life anew. And she did the impossible, becoming the "white angel" of the Soviet stage ...
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Reveillon de 1999. Zosia Albrecht-Radecka é uma esposa e mãe feliz. O seu segundo casamento com Kuba é muito bom. A filha de Zosia, Florentina de 12 anos, adora o seu padrasto. Parece que melhor não poderia ser. No entanto, Zosia culpa o seu destino por não ter conhecido Kuba 13 anos antes. Em uma manhã de maio de 1987, ao acordar, por algum milagre seu sonho se tornou realidade e está 13 anos mais nova, encontrando deitado ao seu lado Darek, seu primeiro marido. Florentina ainda não veio ao mundo, e do outro lado da janela vemos os últimos dias da Polônia comunista! Quando Zosia percebe que isso não é um simples pesadelo, entra em ação. Primeiramente, tem que se livrar do seu marido-tirano o mais rápido possível, em segundo lugar, tem que encontrar Kuba mais cedo. Mas como Florentina ainda não existe, e Zosia a quer tanto, resta concebê-la com Darek...
