In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, young Jewish widow Irma Seidenman possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With a set of false papers, she slips out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer. When an informer drags her off to the Gestapo, however, Irma is going to need a miracle to survive. A participant in the Warsaw Uprising, Andrzej Szczypiorski brings a feeling of authenticity to this sardonic yet wise 1986 thriller.