The film's hero, a young libertarian lawyer, dies four days before the film begins, leaving the case of a worker arrested for organizing a strike unresolved. His widow gets involved in the trial while trying to overcome her husband's death but there seems to be no end to his pervasive influence. Krzysztof Kieslowski's powerful portrait of life under martial law in Poland is a film "burning with a passionate engagement with the system" (Time Out). With Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini and Artur Barcis. In Polish with English subtitles.