mountains. Though she fails to
impress Wiktor’s female co-se-
lector, the teenage Zula’s looks
and feistiness strike a chord with
the older man, who selects her
for a place at the school and
soon embarks on a sexual rela-
tionship with his student.
One day Zula confesses that
she has been secretly working
for the Polish authorities, who
have suspicions about Wiktor’s
political allegiances. While on a
trip to East Berlin for a festival
of music involving Europe’s vari-
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ous communist nations, Wiktor
attempts to convince Zula to flee
across the border with him, but
she chickens out at the last mo-
ment, leaving him to begin a
new life in Paris on his own.
Unable to return to his home-
land, where he would face a
lengthy imprisonment, Wiktor
assumes he has seen the last
of his young lover, but over the
next two decades, Zula and Wik-
tor are reunited and rent apart
several times.
In one of Wiktor and Zula’s first
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