Edmund Głuchowski

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it

Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.

A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.