In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

索罗姬（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）刚刚失去了自己的儿子，与此同时，她亦结下了一个案子，成为了一个名为雷内（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的年轻人的辩护律师，雷内被控告谋杀了他的姑妈珍妮（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）。 在分析了种种的线索之后，索罗姬坚信雷内是无罪的，在索罗姬的不懈努力之下，雷内终于获得了无罪宣判。神秘的精神病医生的出现让这宗案件再度隐入了迷雾之中，乔治（米歇尔·皮寇利 Michel Piccoli 饰）和克里斯蒂（安德烈·瑟韦林 Andrzej Seweryn 饰）亦认为这宗案件并没有就此结束。当一切的秘密都逐渐被呈现在众人面前时，索罗姬是否能够意识到，自己被卷入了一个阴谋之中。

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.

1988 film by Andrzej Żuławski