一代人

在被德国占领的波兰，年轻一代长大了。Stach就是其中一个，他和朋友们起初只是自发地从事危险的抵抗活动，总的来说是无组织无目的。后来在一个慈祥的共产党干部的带领下，他接触到了地下组织。当看到那个勇敢美丽的青年领袖Dorota时，他就加入了进去并与Dorota坠入爱河。接着Stach就投入反抗压迫和屈辱的危险活动中，直到要对其他人的生命负责时他就变成熟了。不幸的是Dorota被逮捕，Stach悲痛欲绝。与此同时，地下抵抗组织招募了新成员，新的一代正在成长。1942 in Nazi occupied Poland. Stach lives with his mother in a shanty town outside Warsaw. When he starts working as an apprentice in a small workshop in the nearby suburb, a middle-aged craftsman approaches him. The man is a secret Communist leader, known as Comrade Sekula. He introduces Stach to Dorota, a young political leader in the Organization of Youth Fighters. She tells Stach to form a small resistance group within the organization, and he involves his friends Jacek and Mundek. Without Stach knowing it, the small workshop is an important hub for another resistance movement, the Polish Underground Army. When Stach finds one of their hidden guns, he steals it. With the gun Jacek kills a Nazi officer. Their group is commissioned to support rebellious Jews in the Ghetto. During this mission Jacek is captured by the Nazis, and kills himself. Stach spends the night making love with Dorota. In the morning he goes out to buy some bread for them. When he returns, he sees Dorota being taken away by Nazi soldiers. Heartbroken by the loss of Dorota and Jacek he sits alone in a field outside the city, when some new recruits of the movement approach him.