While delivering some goods from Poland to East Germany in 1986, a middle-aged Jewish man thinks he has seen a person who was responsible for mass murder during WW2. The DDR Police receive a request from their opposite numbers in The Polish Police to arrest the man and question him. When they do and get nowhere, UN-presciently for an Eastern Bloc Communist Country he is quietly extradited to Poland, to face their Detective Department. Not convinced by his alibi that he is the subject of mis-identity, and sure that they have the right person, the Polish Chief Inspector who has been assigned to the case takes the man to the site where the atrocities were committed. In his defense, Ivan tells the Poles to speak to the Soviet Authorities. They supply information and material about the man The Poles should be looking for and dispel the case against Ivan. However, while observing Ivan and listening to his answers to their probing of his past, the Polish Authorities begin to suspect he has a different and real secret which he is hiding from them. Confronted with their suspicions he is forced to admit a far more serious and pressing situation which is soon to make its presence felt across Eastern Europe in the last years of The Cold War and the Iron Curtain. Having given them what they asked for, Ivan then asks them to assist him to locate a survivor from Warsaw who disappeared while he was there in 1943.
—Roland Oliver