The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Drama about a woman who is estranged from the possessive and violent husband who can’t bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to a dramatic conclusion, her life takes an odd shift.