在1950年初成立,在斯大林的个人崇拜。故事开始在省城。 tomek的父亲,一个家庭军队的前成员被逮捕,所以离开母亲抚养两个孩子单独的任务。楼上的邻居自杀,当她的丈夫也被逮捕并运到战俘营。这是冬天,让孩子保持在学校他们的手,温暖的手打败自己。在学校教师的平均,狭隘的理想主义者,当他们问孩子们去教堂星期日,全班站起来打败宣传课的目的。 tomek被送到培训学校在夏季。在那里,他把他的头抽水思想吸收,当他的父亲从监狱获释,他发现另一个男孩他已经离开了。 by Google translateSet in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It's winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.