Zbigniew Nawrocki (montażysta)

A historical documentary about Antoni Heda, pseud. Szary (Grey), commander of ZWZ (Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army) units and an anti-communist underground activist. The filmmakers follow the hero's footsteps, visiting places he was associated with. The behind-the-scenes narration is supplemented with statements by Szary and his comrades.

Leon Goldring, a Polish Jew living in the United States, comes to Poland after several decades and visits the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. He tells about the shocking details of his stay in the concentration camp. His account is accompanied by the song "Mein sztetełe Bełz".

A young Varsovian talks about discovering his origins and the new identity he is building, Jewish culture and religion. He is supported by an old Jew, a Hebrew teacher.

Soon after the end of the war, a former officer moves to a small seaside town in the Recovered Lands. The situation in this post-German territory is still unsettled.

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.