Edward Puchalski's film from 1922 is the first cinematic adaptation of the famous Polish writer Stefan Żeromski's (1864 - 1925) book Wierna rzeka / The Faithful River (1912). A story set against the backdrop of what is considered one of the greatest patriotic surges in Polish history, its digitally reconstructed version reappears in cinemas on the 150th anniversary of the January Uprising with music by Michał Lorenc. Set in 1863 during the January Uprising - an upheaval in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire, the plot takes place in the manor house of Niezdoły, where an impoverished noblewoman is harbouring an insurgent - Prince Józef Odrowąż whom she falls in love with. The Prince's mother stands in their way.