Agnieszka Sienkiewicz

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland.

Roman Cudakowski, for his friends Cudak, plays in a band at weddings and city parties. During the occupation, the musician did not do well. Entrances to the premises for Germans are an opportunity to earn money. However, they cannot imagine themselves orchestras without a violinist. Cudak takes the gifted Szymon Akerman out of the ghetto to concerts, with whom he did not agree before the war. In the new reality, they both need each other: Cudak can earn money by playing with Akerman, has a chance to survive. One day, Roman decides to permanently take the violinist and his family from the ghetto and hide them, risking his life, in his home.

The story of a singer who, at the peak of her fame, was in a car accident and ended up chained to a hospital bed. For 12 days, the rising star Anna Herman did not regain consciousness. In those days, she had to relive the tragic events of her childhood - the arrest of her father, accused of espionage, the wanderings of their orphaned family in Central Asia, the death of her little brother, the war and escape to Poland in the hope of hiding from her pursuers from the NKVD ... First love and first success ... None of the doctors believed that she would survive. And even if this happens, she was predicted to be completely immobile for the rest of her life. However, after 12 days in a coma, heaven gave her a chance to start life anew. And she did the impossible, becoming the "white angel" of the Soviet stage ...

La période de fièvre pré-Noël de décembre commencera avec l’arrivée d’un Père Noël inhabituel dans la ville. Cela déclenchera une avalanche d’événements exceptionnels. Une liaison avec le footballeur polonais le plus populaire rencontrera une femme que personne ne qualifierait de fan de football. Les trahisons et les secrets susciteront de nombreux mariages, et un mariage raffiné dans les moindres détails aura une finale surprenante.

Durant le règne de terreur de Staline, Eugenia Ginzburg, un professeur de littérature, est reconnue coupable d'agitation antisoviétique et condamnée à 10 ans de travaux forcés dans un goulag en Sibérie. Ayant perdu mari, enfants et maison, la jeune femme se laisse aller à des idées sombres et morbides. Pourtant, sur place, elle rencontre le Dr Anton Walter, médecin du camp, qui la prend sous son aile et fait naître une lueur d'espoir dans l'enfer qui est son quotidien.

Four thirty-something women who met in highschool continue to maintain a strong friendship despite the passing of time. Although very different, they also have much in common, each earnestly trying to find themselves and their place in the world.