A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns.

A film devoted to the difficult fate and dramatic choices of actors during the war – whether to continue practicing their profession, performing in theaters that were openly operating and opened with the consent of the occupying authorities, and thus agree to a kind of collaboration with the enemy, or to abandon the acting profession and change careers. The author of the film presents the attitudes of actors in the General Government, primarily Warsaw artists: how they reacted to the directives of the Underground State and the resolution of the ZASP - the Secret Theater Council prohibiting its members from cooperating with open theaters.

Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk and his wife Ewa have a special relationship. The charismatic maestro, who is successful in the world of music, seems completely helpless and lost in everyday life without his wife's help. She supports him in the simplest everyday activities and makes many life decisions for him.

A documentary about theater activity in the Eastern Borderlands, showing the attitudes and choices of artists under Soviet and German occupation. The filmmakers do not shy away from comparisons with the situation in the General Government, where performing in so-called open theaters was considered treason.