此片是波兰导演皮奥特尔·舒尔金八十年代科幻三部曲的第三章，也是最后一章，三部分在情节上没有直接关联，但在主题上具有相关性。一本世界遭受核战争的科幻小说，一部荒凉的后启示录。287138号囚犯接到一个极其重要的任务，在空间监狱船里穿梭，降落到一个无人居住的星球，其居民视他为“英雄”和“贵族”，但英雄主义和英勇行为有代价：他必须犯下一个罪行，然后在一个光荣的仪式上被公开处决。这个新世界的囚犯所遭遇的一切，其实是对我们现实世界的戏仿和夸张：美化暴力、痴迷媒体、官僚主义等。

Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack.