Four workers who go to London to renovate the house of a Polish man living there and earn the equivalent of their annual income in just one month on the job. Of the four builders, only one speaks English and only he understands the radio announcements that martial law has been imposed in his homeland. Focused on the money he can earn and the luxury goods he can buy with it in Britain, Nowak hides the truth from his co-workers, not wanting them to abandon the renovation work and try to return to Poland. In order to keep his secret for as long as possible, Nowak goes further and further (from lying to tearing Solidarnosc posters off the streets of London), while losing himself in his own greed and selfishness.