El regreso (Tiempo no perdido, 3)

Krakow, 1945. Stefan Trzyniecki —the young doctor who survived the psychiatric hospital in *The Hospital of the Transfiguration* and the extermination camp in "Among the Dead"— returns to a city devastated by war, covered in rubble and ash, where mutilated facades and empty walls seem to silently echo the irreparable. Around him, a gallery of characters struggles to adapt to the new regime: former resistance fighters, Party bureaucrats, opportunists, survivors who don't know what to do with their lives. Alongside them, Bogusław Wieleniecki —a psychologist at the Ministry, torn between loyalty to the Party and the remnants of his conscience— must decide how far his allegiance extends.