The background of the story presented in the film are the events that took place on May 3, 1982 in the streets of Warsaw, Poland. On that day, the militia and ZOMO brutally pacified the largest demonstration since the introduction of martial law.

Babilon. Raport o stanie wojennym

Stanislaw Marusarz, a well-known Polish jumper, including: the 1938 world vice-champion in Lahti, four-time Olympian, seven-time participant in the ski world championships, as well as a second lieutenant of the Home Army, a Tatra courier. From the first months of the occupation, he was active in the underground as a courier of the Underground State to Hungary. In 1940, he jumped from the second floor and escaped from the Gestapo prison in Krakow. After the war, he was one of the longest active ski jumping athletes in the world. Marusarz became the guest of honor at the 4-Hills-Tournament in the 1965-66 season. He stood on the famous Gross-Titlis-Schanze at the age of 53 - his jump in a suit and tie has made his legacy. Marusarz's spectacular jump in a suit during the Four Hills Tournament '66 became a pretext to tell his fate, as well as the story of his sister Helena - a talented skier, participant of the Resistance Movement, murdered by the Nazis in 1941.

Marusarz. Tatrzanski orzel

Pre-war, elegant Warsaw, the Olympic arena in Amsterdam and the wilderness of eastern Poland. Konopacka crossed it in September 1939 as one of the drivers of the convoy evacuating the reserves of the Bank of Poland, led by her husband, Colonel Ignacy Matuszewski. The action takes place on two time planes: the dramatic evacuation of the Bank of Poland's reserves is complemented by flashbacks, which present the most important events in the life of the main character.