The film presents a Hungarian settled in Gdansk. István Elek moved to Warsaw in 1944 as a lieutenant of the hussar regiment of the cavalry division under German command. In order to liberate the capital, Aug. Instead of isolating the anti-German Warsaw uprising that broke out on the 1st, the Hungarian command, including István Elek, helped the civilians get out of the capital. In 1945, he was arrested by the Red Army and dragged to the Soviet Union, but managed to escape from the transport near Klaipeda.