In the second half of the 1970s, a group of teenagers, led by the charismatic and unruly student Siczka from a vocational school in Ustrzyki, decided to become punks and play punk rock. They were inspired by the band Sex Pistols, which they heard on a foreign radio station, and by the the emerging 'punk' movement. They start by sending a letter to Radio Free Europe, asking for more “music of free people” to be played on the air. To their amazement, the letter is read live on the show, and the station begins broadcasting a weekly program about punk music. This catches the attention of the repressive apparatus of the Polish People's Republic. A Security Service officer, Jerzy Majak, interrogates Siczka and makes it clear that Ustrzyki Dolne is not London, and there will be no “punks” in his district. Undeterred, Siczka and his friends form a punk rock band called KSU, defying everyone, and introduce elements of London’s “punk culture” into their shabby town. Suddenly, some of the previously well-behaved school youth pierce their cheeks with safety pins, start wearing razor blades, chains, and a mohawk hairstyle....