The Gierek's decade of the 1970s is underway. David Bowie, traveling from Moscow to Berlin, stops for a short while in Warsaw. His seemingly insignificant stay in the Polish capital became a legend as the embodiment of what is unattainable and inaccessible, a streak of color and brilliance in the universal dullness. Meanwhile, platoon leader Wojciech Kretek cannot sleep in one of the stuffy and cramped apartments in Warsaw. A sensitive and emotional policeman tries to solve the case of a man named Dusidamek from Mokotów. The fear-mongering torturer, however, seems to be only a symbol of lesser violence and oppression that the inhabitants of Warsaw experience at every step from the world and each other.
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