Shot in 1982 and banned until 1989 the film is a fiction adventure depicting apolitical people's devastation by martial law in Poland. The movie begins in October 1981. Yachtswoman Ewa (Krystyna Janda) is celebrating with her ex-husband and a new business partner, her pending solo tour around the world. Their party is filmed by a tv journalist, whose coverage of the race becomes the symbol of state censorship after the clamp-down. Ex-husband loses his job when he refuses to sign a loyalty oath. The business partner's boat club goes bankrupt. Ewa returns to the country pregnant with the ex-husband child.