1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
