A popular radio actress makes her first trip abroad, to Paris, only to be pulled back into the bitter past she has long been trying to escape by her inevitable encounter with the man she once loved and protected, a fellow actor who betrayed and abandoned her during the dark years of World War II. The talented Barbara Krafftowna embodies the world-weariness and fragile pride of her generation of survivors while giving nuanced dimension to the figure of an artist seeking solace in the mirror world of performance. Arguably the best known and critically received of Has' early works, How to be Loved also features the great Zbigniew Cybulski, brilliantly cast against type as the actress’ now strangely diminished former lover. A faithful adaptation of an eponymous Kazimierz Brandys story, How to be Loved is a key expression of the preoccupation shared by Has and the so-called Polish School with the lasting scars of World War II upon the Polish nation and psyche.