The only feature film of Erwin Axer, an outstanding theatrical director. Adaptation of an unfinished play of Emil Zegadłowicz, written during the first two years of Hitler’s occupation and emanating a sense of defeat. A propaganda picture showing how People’s Poland perceived the interwar period, the rule of the Sanation political movement and the September defeat. The film combines dramatic historic events with an almost satirical criticism of the society and the political system of the Second Polish Republic.