This biography is subject to more than one film. In the 60s Polish loved her. It seemed to them that have it all: career, great performances in popular films (including "Giuseppe in Warsaw", "The wife of the Australian", "marriage of convenience"), love, fame, life as a fairy tale. In 1965, she married American journalist, correspondent of "New York Times' David Halberstam and him went to the United States. They were a pair, like Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe ...
King Dębska and Maria Konwicka represent us in his film Czyżewska true (in so far as possible), Czyżewska in Poland unknown. The authors focused on the fate of its American heroine. Friends and actresses tell the unvarnished about her failed marriage, the win after years of struggle with alcoholism, attempts to return to the Polish. This is a very intimate portrait of a woman, that she wanted to just play. She suffered from a cruel twist of fate that changed her life 180 degrees, making it difficult for the fulfillment of the scene. Death from cancer has become a cruel metaphor for the life of the actress, as if sucked strength from it not only the disease but also the lack of roles. Therefore Czyżewska played the rest of your life and it wherever she could. Even in the hospital, being pendent to drip, he treated her as his only prop, and guests as participants in adoption. This film is an analysis of being an actress.
 
Mention her friends, among others: Meryl Streep, Andrzej Wajda, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Malgorzata Potocka, Liliana Komorowska, Daniel Olbrychski, Michal Urbaniak, Adam Holender, Gay Talese (writer) Nancy Weber (writer), Hanna Hartowicz (founder of the New York Polish Film Festival ), critic and professor of film studies at Columbia University Annette Insdorf, actor Omar Sangare, Myra Paci (director), Barbara Sass - Zdort, John Guare (playwright), Joanna Rostropovich - Clark (writer) Robert Brustein (founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre) Barbara Ungeheuer (reporter).
The background of the film is shown impresyjnie New York, a city that Czyżewska she considered his second homeland. The film, which resembles what she was, confirms her talent and reminds that passion is the driving force of life. Director this film reflect its rightful place in our culture.