After the daily newspaper Alger Républicain was banned from publication in 1955, its editor Henri Alleg went underground. He was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in 1957 by the French army in Algeria.
In the year of 2095 a war of unclear motives breaks out and everyone gets drafted. After ending up alone with no news of the outside world, a young delinquent punk quickly loses all motivation to keep fighting for his country and becomes suicidal.
A unit of the People's Army celebrates the moment of liberation of the country. They remember the times of occupation, the actions they took, and their fallen colleagues.
The writer Jan Kellert - the author of the widely known book "The Legend of the Vistula", which is part of the canon of pre-war middle school reading, comes from Lublin to Żmurki, where he spent the occupation. The division of the Żmurki estate is to take place the next day. The welcome dinner becomes an opportunity to exchange political views and a critical view of the manor's inhabitants on the current situation.
Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.
Michał is among the soldiers quartered in a village near Lublin. By accident, he goes to the palace and visits the magnificent building, where he meets a widow Maria. Meanwhile, local peasants do not want to wait for the start of land reform. They appoint their own committee and want to deal with the division of property themselves.
Summer 1944. Polish armed forces are being organized in the Lublin region. Edward, one of the generals of the First Army, receives an order to form an artillery division. He counts on the help of Stefan, his old friend who lives in Lublin. However, it turns out that Stefan - a colonel and commander of the Home Army during the occupation - was arrested...
As a voyeur of your past influencing the decisions of your future, does the present matter when all you can do is watch? The places you come from, and the decisions you make, daunt you as you look towards the places you'll be and the decisions you'll make in the future. Does that leave you any power or are you left in the end as the helpless witness of the reins of time?
Cardiff, 2044. Devoted Government Relationship Therapist, Heather Clarke is gifted a second chance to start a family after the death of her first-born child. Will Heather seduce soldiers of the regime, while her husband, Commander Howard is away on business?
A beat-up camper approaches a snow-covered mountain military check point. A pale sun is rising as a prelude to a chilly morning. The passengers are two old people who are trying to avoid the national draft of their grandson. They hide the kid in a coffin, pretending he's dead. But the commander discovers the young deserter.