No End

Set in Poland in 1982 under martial law, with the banned trade union Solidarity as the backdrop, No End follows Urszula, a translator whose life unravels after her husband Antek, a lawyer, dies suddenly. Grieving and adrift, she drifts through work, her son, and other distractions. Joanna, the wife of a worker arrested for organising a strike, approaches her for help; looking through her late husband's notebook, Urszula points her toward an older lawyer named Labrador, who takes on the politically charged case despite his own reservations. She also grows suspicious about a mark Antek left beside Labrador's name.

The film is Krzysztof Kieślowski's second feature in a career spanning thirteen directed films, following Camera Buff and preceding Blind Chance. Kieślowski wrote the screenplay with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a collaboration that continued across his later work. Grażyna Szapołowska plays Urszula, with Aleksander Bardini as Labrador, Maria Pakulnis as Joanna, and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz as Antek. Twenty-eight cast members are credited.

No End holds a critics' rating of 7.3 from ten reviews, slightly above its audience rating of 7 on TMDB from 123 votes, a modest reception typical of a drama rooted in Poland's political reality of the early 1980s rather than in conventional narrative resolution.