Pharmacy trainee Władzio is a shy young man with a good heart, in love with lovely Loda.

A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.

A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.

Wincenty Poziomka tries to earn his living and falls in love.

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.