His first sighting of Janusz is a pure coup de foudre, described in typically swoony terms: “A flash of heat traveled from my stomach to my cheeks, my thoughts jumbled like a ball of string….It was as if your presence already overpowered me, like a prophecy I was unable to read.” Their summer romance, initiated during a hiking trip to the lake district, is an idyll that cannot last the gray realities of Warsaw life-food and medicine shortages, tight party control over university advancement, an emerging protest movement subject to crackdown-will come between the lovers. A young gay man enters into a clandestine affair in the repressive political climate of communist Poland in the early 1980s.įrom his new home in the Polish community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Ludwik addresses this narrative to Janusz, the handsome university student he met at an agricultural “work education” camp outside Warsaw in the summer of 1980.
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