Synopsis

The ominous future of a volatile region. On April 10, 2010, a Polish government plane crashed near the Russian airfield at Smolensk. There were no survivors, and Poland lost, in a single instant, nearly its entire political leadership. The aircraft was en route to commemorate one of the most profound tragedies in Polish history: the massacre at Katyn, a Russian village where over twenty thousand Poles were murdered by the Soviet secret police in 1940. A more dramatically unfortunate confluence o