Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
Maja Komorowska
as Aunt Ida Dobrowolska
Bartosz Obuchowicz
as Hubert
Karolina Wajda
as Rozmaryna
Piotr Adamczyk
as Ksawery
Piotr Szwedes
as Dominik
Stanisława Celińska
as Justyna Winewar
Andrzej Szenajch
as Rotmistrz
Agnieszka Warchulska
as Headmaster
Artur Bartos
as
