本片凭据波兰出名同名小说改编，报告了二战时代，华沙被纳粹德国部队霸占，波兰孺子军的年老人们与德国霸占者举行勇敢奋斗的故事。Based on a well-known Polish novel with the same title the movie re-tells a true life story of a group of scouts called ''Szare Szeregi'' (Gray Ranks) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and the liberation of one of its members (imprisoned and tortured by the Germans) through a maverick military action in board daylight right under the enemy's nose known ''Action at the Arsenal'' which was the biggest single feat of the sort undertaken by a youth resistance organisation in all of occupied Europe during WWII. 故事讲得也很慢，但是由于其内容和形式上的干净单纯，两种“慢”相加，就显得有些蠢了。