Waking up the morning of Sunday, December 13 in 1981 Poland meant waking up to a new world. Overnight, the authoritarian communist government (which reigned from 1952 until 1990) declared Martial Law—which, to put it short, meant the implementation of a whole lot of restrictions on daily life. Poland quickly became characterised by instability, mass protests, worker strikes, and an overarching climate of secrecy, conspiracy, imposed control, fear, unrest, and chaos. Activists were jailed, people and workers disappeared, and it appeared as though the country was split into two completely parallel, non-intersecting narratives of "the people" vs. "the state." One example of this schism is embodied in the city of Nowa Huta. Built in the 1950s, Nowa Huta was designed in the image of communism, deemed a "city without God," and sold to residents as the "ultimate proletariat paradise." PLOT TWIST: Despite the city planners' aims to embed compliance into the philosophy and daily rituals of Nowa Huta's residents, it wasn't long before the people of Nowa Huta found their own collective voice and started fighting back against the narrative that was being imposed upon them. In fact, Nowa Huta became a central point of silent revolution, serving as a meeting point for protestors and underground organisers of the Solidarity movement. This exhibit aims to shed light on the people and stories that, despite an enforced agenda, managed to rise against and set their own narrative in Poland's history.