Set among the Polish intelligentsia, in 1939, when an atmosphere of despair and impending doom colored relationships, Has's second feature is described in the credits as "a sentimental comedy." It is an intimate drama of a rebellious young student from the upper classes and a cynical taxi-dancer who spend time together in the country before they are separated, first by his domineering father, then by history. He is sent to a concentration camp, and it is only after the war that the two meet again. Feelings are again colored by circumstance-but circumstances have changed. In Has's free adaptation of Stanislaw Dygat's novel "the sense of a crumbling order is well conveyed...and Jahoda's soft, shadowy photography reinforces the metaphysical quandaries of the two characters." (Derek Elley, International Film Guide) "An obtrusive tone of nostalgia for something that had perhaps never existed imbues Farewells with an unusual sensuous fascination." (Liehm & Liehm)