The Call of the Toad is a film released in 2005 that tells the love story between a German man and a Polish woman who become caught up in the advent of modern capitalism in Poland.

[1][2] In Gdańsk, Poland, in 1989, Alexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska first meet on their way to a cemetery.

Both are survivors from the end of World War II when many people from Poland and Germany were displaced as borders were re-drawn according to new treaties.

They have both been widowed and due to their upheaval - they share the belief that survivors such as themselves should have the right to be returned home for burial.

They form a company that arranges for survivors to be buried in their original country but as the money rolls in, their good intentions are corrupted.