Solidarity strikes are breaking out all over Communist Poland and Soviet forces seem set for a crackdown. A small group of student activists have taken over the vice-rector's office in a Warsaw university. One is Tom, a visiting student from Belfast, whose love for a girl from Gdansk is bad for them all. Another is Alex, the journalist whose family of agitators have secrets of their own. Then there is Michalski, their enigmatic leader. Over a decade...