The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.

Janusz Gajosas Bazyli Miotke
Anna Radwanas Gerda von Krauss
Sebastian Fabijańskias Mateusz Kroll
Marianna Zydekas Marita von Krauss
Adam Woronowiczas Hermann von Krauss
Sławomir Orzechowskias Franz Necel
Diana Zamojskaas Urszula Miotke
Borys Szycas Fryderyk von Krauss
Łukasz Simlatas Peter Schmidt
Marcel Sabatas Kurt von Krauss