Uma mulher alemã está em um navio voltando para sua terra natal na Europa. Durante a viagem, vê uma mulher cujo rosto lhe traz lembranças de seu passado cheio de tragédias. Quando ela conta ao marido sobtre a mulher que salvou no passado, o filme mostra ao espectador os acontecimentos.
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.