Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out of wedlock. When Stach is sent on forced labourer in Germany, Eliza and her child set off on an epic journey to be reunited with her lover.

Sylwia Skrzypczak-Piękoś
as Eliza

Vitalik Havryla
as Stach

Mirosław Jękot
as Schwickard

Gunda Aurich
as Frau Schwickard

Michael Schiller
as Weber

Wolfgang Boos
as Schnittke

Karolina Lodyga
as Anna

Robert Gonera
as Pierre

Anna Dzieduszycka
as Gerda

Izabela Ostrzołek
as Lida