2 Ergebnisse.

Halina, a volunteer aide at the hospital, sings Polish folk songs to patients who are too sick to notice. She lives in a neighborhood of Polish immigrants, all entrenched in Old Country ways, all as stubborn as she is. While her befuddled parents struggle with haunting war-era tragedies, Halina is saving her poker winnings for a train ticket to Anywhere. She wants to study nursing and get away from this stinking place. She's done scrubbing lau...

A young Polish American woman who has been saving her poker winnings for a train ticket and a chance to be anything other than an immigrant's daughter, Halina knows that Prohibition stinks to high heaven and then some. But her plans are interrupted when whiskey men come to town, hiding their bootleg liquor in the cellar of the abandoned house next door. Suddenly, the small immigrant community is the backdrop for conniving schemes and escalatin...