Ambientado na época pré-Segunda Guerra Mundial. Um jovem viaja num combóio estranho para ir visitar o seu pai moribundo num sanatório. Mas o lugar está em ruínas e recorda muitas memórias do passado. Ele está sitiado por soldados do passado, mercenários negros coloniais, meninas de sua infância e seus pais. É uma aventura interior, com um toque atmosférico incomum e cenários exuberantes.
Roza marries a promising young architect, Juliusz ; for a few months, they have a blissful life together. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Roza abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Roza starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
