There’s nothing new here about the Solidarity movement but Godmilow has a gimmicky way of filming the documentary after she returns to NYC from Poland, where she was visiting during the beginning of the strike only to return home to raise money to make a film. She’s then denied five visas by the consulate for herself and film crew to return. The frustrated Godmilow hunkers down in NYC and begins with a staged and strained conversation with her filmmaker boyfriend Mark Magill on how to get around not making the film in Poland, as he mocks her liberal agenda. The filmmaker then has an actress, Ruth Maleczech, play the crane operator Anna Walentynowicz whose firing sparked the shipyard strike, as she’s interviewed in an empty meeting hall. Other re-enactments include a Polish miner interviewed by a NY Times reporter, an imaginary conversation with Fidel Castro, William Raymond injecting some needed comedy in his performance as a paranoid government censor known only as K-62, and a fictional reading of letters to his daughter from General Jaruzelski–he’s the authority figure who imposed martial law in 1981 and soon after the strike was placed under house arrest. Also interjected into the film are inferior footage (Godmilow says this herself) sent to New York by the Solidarity Film Agency before the Polish Government imposed martial law.