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A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarists army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women's Leage member - Ola, and Tadek, her fiancee, a member of Shooting Team. Apart from fictitious characters whose stories were modeled on the biographies of real legionnaires, many historical figures appear in the film. Among them: Brigadier Józef Pilsudski, Lieutenant Stanislaw Kaszubski, pseud. "King" and many others. The film focuses on the Legion's combat trail from1914-1916, from the departure from Oleandry to the battle of Kosciuchnowka and show the most dramatic cards of the legionary epic, including the famous attack of uhlans at Rokitna - one of the most spectacular scenes in the film.

This film shows the period of 1970's and 1980's in the Soviet history. It shows the attitude of the West to the Soviet Union, and how it changed through years, through presidency of Carter (the best presidency in United States, as GRU claimed) and Reagan (who used to describe USSR as "The Empire of Evil"). It answers the question, why the Soviet Union supported the communist fractions in Africa and Latin America. Also, it tries to describe the "convergence theory", pursued by Andrey Sakharov. Finally, it shows the plan of another system transformation, developed in 1970's by KGB and the role of Mikhail Gorbachev in this plan.