It is 1971. World famous cellist, Clara Plank, returns to Poland, her country of birth, for the first time in Thirty years. She is the guest of honor in a Gala concert where she will play Dvorak’s cello concerto. But the Familiar sites and the sounds of the cello make her mind wonder to one spring in that terrible war in which she lost everyone she had loved. It’s 1939. Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amidst the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur. Such a fragile arrangement is sustained by love - or is it just the will to survive?

Film is based on the real events which discover the unknown pages of the history of World War II. The action takes place on the beginning of May of 1945 on a small remote island, where women with their children serve their sentence. It turns out that they’ve been sent here from the territories occupied by fascists and their children were born from invaders. Finally the great victory is announced. The heroines live in a happy expectation that now they will be forgiven, but the very same day a mayor of NKVD come to the island – he has an order to organize as soon as possible the dispatch of the women to camps, while their children should be sent to orphan homes…

North Africa, II. WW, Fall 1941. Jiri Pospichal, twenty years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death. All this takes its cruel toll in the shape of his gradual loss of self respect and courage. His closest companion is a Jewish soldier, Jan Lieberman, in many ways more mature. Their opposite, in turn, is Corporal Kohák, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, for whom warfare is above all a profession. The plot of the film is freely based on the classic American novel «The Red Badge of Courage» by Stephen Crane.