"We other, young and innocent sorcerers, are looking forpoisons to kill our own hopes": Wajda's first film with acontemporary setting-co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski and JerzyAndrzejewski, author of Ashes and Diamonds-brought to light the problemsof a new "lost generation." Their young heroes are unscathedby the horrors of war but cannot face the horrors of peace:disillusionment with the present and fear of the future are masked in ablasé pose; yearning is masked in self-deception. InnocentSorcerers observes a single night in the lives of a young Warsaw doctor(a drummer in a jazz band) and an innocent if sarcastic woman whobecomes his partner/adversary in a game of mutual seduction. M. and A.Liehm note in their book The Most Important Art, "InnocentSorcerers...was the only Eastern European film of its time to disclosecertain problems of young people that the official view of realityrefused to see. (Its) very nature aroused an immediate and negativeresponse. (It was named) as one of the films for which there was no roomin Polish cinema."