Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.

A town in Poland in the 1980s. Two journalists have doubts about the way the local police solve the murder of a prostitute and a communist activist.

True story about famous and devastating case of polish lad Tomasz Komenda, who is wrongly acused of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.