1942–1943 German-occupied Warsaw. Young Polish woman Irena Sendler, as a social worker, receives permission to visit the Warsaw Ghetto. Realizing that the Jews are doomed, Irena persuades them to give her their children. Sendler takes teenagers out through the sewer, and carries out kids in bags and tool boxes. She places them in monasteries and with friends. Someone denounces Irena, she is arrested, tortured and sentenced to death.1999–2000. Kansas rural high school. Three schoolgirls are preparing a report on history and find a note about Irena Sendler. Why does no one know about the woman who saved 2,500 children? Inspired by her feat, the girls stage a play that unexpectedly causes a huge resonance not only in America, but also in Europe. But they can’t find the grave of their heroine. Maybe Irena Sendler is alive?..