Jerzy Bekker

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

Jozef vient voir son père en traitement dans un sanatorium, où le Dr. Gotard entretient une très mystérieuse atmosphère. Une porte allégorique garde l'entrée du lieu ; dès qu'on la franchit, on pénètre dans un monde de fantaisie issu du subconscient.