Jacek Ryś

Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?

The story of a great hero of the Second World War - Captain Witold Pilecki, who, after carrying out military operations, opposed Poland's Soviet domination. His biography shows the heroic, sometimes hopeless, fight with two ruthless totalitarianisms of the 20th century: German and Soviet.

Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.