Music From CHOPIN'S HEART

Hanka Ordonówna, Poland's brightest cabaret star, has toured Europe and America, performed on the legitimate stage, and even made a few movies.

Ferenc Járosy, emcee, comic, and singer, was Hanka's lover many years ago and carries a torch for her, despite the fact that she has married into the nobility.

Zosia Terné, nicknamed Zozo, was also Járosy's lover in the past. At the end of their relationship, she went to Paris, and became a star --- yet she still carries a torch for Járosy. Zozo's mother is Jewish; this is a time of great danger for her.

Count Michal Tyszkiewicz, government minister and a member of one of Poland's oldest and most respected families, is Hanka's husband. He is bankrolling the new cabaret.

Frederic Sercki is the composer and music director who was the heart of the first cabaret in which they all worked, and everyone is counting on him to pen new hit songs. Will Poland's increasingly authoritarian government throw him into an internment camp because of his sexual orientation or because of his penchant for creating bitingly political material?