When the Wehrmacht occupies Lemberg, a professor hiding her Jewish heritage becomes a member of the Polish underground in exchange for the promise of her family’s safety, if she can find them.

SYNOPSIS:

Professor Elzbieta Novak’s already shaky world crumbles in June and July of 1941. She loses her teaching position due to politics. She discovers her husband Janusz takes part in the executions of a Russian collaborators, ordered by the Polish Court in exile. Einsatzgruppen-C closes the University and executes University staff. Her husband’s lover allows her to believe he has died in a raid on a safe house. She doubts she will see her extended family after they are separated in the violence of the 1941 Pogrom. She murders the son of a policeman to save her daughter Magdalena when they are caught up in the violence. The Polish Underground agrees to smuggle her and Magdalena out of Lemberg. She agrees to become an agent in return for learning how to smuggle people to Palestine so she can be an active part of her extended family’s rescue, rather than leave them to their fates. Police Sargent Moroz finds a clue linking Magdalena to the murder of his son and swears to avenge his death. Magdalena, posing as an Orthodox novice, helps a child to safety in hiding.