华沙,5703年

in 1943,in warsaw,the jews alek (lambert wilson) and fryda (julie delpy),escape from the ghetto through the sewer tunnels. alek leaves his wife fryda in a church and looks for help. stephania (hanna schygulla),a german christian woman of about forty years old living alone,gives shelter and food for alek. in the night,they have an affair,and alek,wanting to keep the prot...