关于二战的电影是波兰电影学院派经常拍摄的话题。在《如何被爱》中哈斯把只是把战争作为背景，讲述两个普通人的悲剧感情故事。女主角为了爱情的无私奉献最后反而成为了她深爱的男人的负担，在某种意义上毁掉了后者的生活。这一切都是在战争的环境下发生的，正如女主角讲的，开始以为生活就是自己身边的事，后来才发现整个国家都和你有关。而男主角最后也说道，我们都是被卷入战争的普通人。

本片根据波兰著名同名小说改编，讲述了二战期间，华沙被纳粹德国军队占领，波兰童子军的年轻人们与德国占领者进行英勇斗争的故事。 Based on a well-known Polish novel with the same title the movie re-tells a true life story of a group of scouts called ''Szare Szeregi'' (Gray Ranks) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and the liberation of one of its members (imprisoned and tortured by the Germans) through a maverick military action in board daylight right under the enemy's nose known ''Action at the Arsenal'' which was the biggest single feat of the sort undertaken by a youth resistance organisation in all of occupied Europe during WWII.