He worked for the Soviet wartime intelligence in occupied Europe, then spent 10 years in a Stalinist prison. Before that, when captured by the Gestapo, he had pretended to collaborate and had to explain himself for it for the rest of his life. Employing archival footage in a creative way, the film reveals the remarkable biography of a Polish Jew, a victim of the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 in Poland, who was subject to surveillance and house arrest. Who actually was Leopold Trepper? He is portrayed as a man who, for many years, fought for his ideals, good name and the right to freedom.