Escape

The beginning of the story takes place during the times of the Polish People's Republic in the early seventies.

The heroine, after her parent's divorce, lives in solitude then gets to know a local gangster, whom she marries.

She's going through hell with him. She is beaten, battered, and threatened by him. A daughter is born to them. Heroine decides to escape the nightmare that she's living in, but shortly the gangster finds her.

Upon another beating, where he has a broken jaw and teeth, she makes another attempt to escape.

There is no other way but to leave the country, where the gangster's power does not reach.

This time takes place during strict "communism" and the implementation of such a plan border near to a miracle.

It was impossible to have her husband sign a consent form for their daughter to leave.

But in some remarkable way she manages to complete all the formalities for the trip which leads her to a refugee camp in Italy.

She spends a year there and then emigrates to Canada.

She meets a millionaire whom she dumps for a young and poor man whom she falls in love with.

She begins to successfully build a real estate business but after few months, it is ruined by her husband.

After losing all their property, they decide to move the whole family to South Korea. In Seoul, the heroine's husband gets a job as an English teacher at a local university.

The heroine quickly establishes relations with various embassies, and she opens her own company.

She has great business and financial successes. With all her successes in the field of business, she fails in her private life.

Her husband cheats on her notoriously, while being jealous of his wife's successes.

Travels between Poland and Korea unable to decide whether to leave Asia or not.

After another betrayal of her husband who is putting her to jail for trespassing of their own house, and a painful divorce, she decides to return to Poland.