The Polish society which was defeated by Germany in 1945 and expelled foreign aggression did not usher in real peace. Vendetta between different factions and bureaucrats appears from time to time. Marchik (Zbigniew Cybulski is acted the role of) and the governor Anjie is ordered by the old boss, Mayor Svitzki, to assassinate the newly appointed Workers' Party District Secretary Szhuka, but Marchik accidentally kills two innocent workers. Svitzki is about to be promoted to minister to hold a feast. Marchik is immersed in a deep guilt of hurting innocent people and can only relieve himself through a brief relationship with Christina, a bar girl. Angie asks Marchik to cheer up and carry out his bounden duty as a soldier. Skhoka hated the flashy pleasures of local officials, but he couldn't even get his lost son back. In the vast expanse of night, Marchik finds Skhoka, and the two have to face the fate of the postwar ruins at the same time. This film won the 1959 Venice Film Festival International Film critic Phoebe Award. It is the end of director Angie Wajda's war trilogy.
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