Rafał Szumera

A play about the fall of communism in Poland showned from a different perspective. We will see this historic event through the eyes of the couples participating in it. In the lives of the Frasyniuks, Wałęsas and Kurońes, political ideas compete with love, enthusiasm collides with the weight of history, and heroism intertwines with family tragedies. Viewers will accompany the heroes in iconic moments - during the strikes in the shipyard and at the Round Table - as well as in intimate moments of joy and suffering experienced in the privacy of apartments in the Polish People's Republic or in prison cells.

A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...