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The situation in Poland in December 1981 was nearing the boiling point. It had gotten so bad that nearly empty supermarkets were being swarmed by customers eager to pluck the last remaining items off the shelves. And passengers on a seagoing excursion were preparing to defect when the ship reached Hamburg. Indeed, when martial law is declared in Poland and the ship's captain declares his intention to return to that country without stopping anywhere else, the majority of the passengers don life jackets and jump overboard rather than return to the oppressions they hoped to escape. However, one man, a Solidarity special operative, opts to return to his homeland and carry on the struggle for freedom.