史坦尼斯瓦夫布热斯卡将军曾与俄罗斯帝国作战，并凭借首次成功袭击俄军驻地而晋升为军官和首席牧师。他被俄军称为「幽灵」，曾多次从被称为「波德拉斯刽子手」的军官马努金手中死里逃生，在接下来的两年起义中，他始终保持着隐蔽，这不仅为波兰社会带来了摆脱沙皇瓜分的希望，也让俄军陷入恐慌…

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.