Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.

Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.

Young Polish noble Jakub, freed during 1793 Prussian invasion, experiences father's death, betrayal. Traumatized, he follows his savior, committing brutal murders across the country.