Synopsis
The main hero of The Unsubmissive is Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, the author of the famous book on the infiltration of the Cracow Archdiocese clergymen by the communist-era secret services - "Priests in the Face of the Security Services". The book, in which the author revealed the truth on the topic of cooperation of some clergymen with the communist secret services, raised huge controversies even before it was published. The film follows the events that accompanied work over the book, it shows the fight of Father Zaleski for the right to say the truth but also the resistance he faced from the Church hierarchs. That is why it becomes a testimony of the discussion over the legitimacy and methods for evaluating the past, and over the attitude that the Polish Church should have towards its own complicated past.