Witnesses of the crimes that took place in the post-war period, living in a sense of fear and shame, after more than 70 years decide to break the silence and tell about what they saw.
“The Fear” is a story about the social memory of the murders that took place after World War II in the Dębrzyn forest in the Subcarpathian region. Many people then returned from distant corners of the world, not expecting that they would be attacked by bandits close to their home. Thrown from the train, robbed and finally killed, they increased the number of people allegedly missing during the war. The inhabitants of the nearby towns knew about what was going on in the forest. However, they did not intervene because, as they say themselves, "they lived under fear".