Uma mentira inocente pode ficar fora de controle e levar a um desastre total? Ou talvez, assim como tudo pode dar errado na vida, seja possível colocar tudo no lugar novamente? Karina está fazendo o possível para ter o primeiro relacionamento feliz em sua vida. Infelizmente, o homem a quem ela deu seu coração parece estar mais interessado em si mesmo do que nela. Um evento imprevisto e uma pequena mentira transformarão a vida organizada de Karina em uma montanha-russa emocional e hilária. Em pouco tempo, percebemos que outras pessoas ao redor de Karina também têm seus pequenos segredos. Quando a verdade começa a vir a tona, todos terão que finalmente resolver seus relacionamentos e dar paz aos seus corações.
For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose existence her parents have kept secret until now. For 70-year-old Lena it's a journey back: back to her home in Masuren, from which she fled in the Second World War. And back to her suppressed pain of having lost both parents. Only together can the mismatched couple regain the ground beneath their feet, and themselves.
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
