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The aim of the article is to analyze Jerzy Szperkowicz’s reportage I will return before night (2001) and indicate the results of the investigation conducted there. The reporter sets off on a journey to Belarus, and simultaneously travels in time. Reaching deep into the past in order to find new information concerning the circumstances of the murder of his parents during World War II, he once more interrogates witnesses of the crime. He also wants to find the hitherto unknown place of the grave of his mother and father. This peregrination functions as a form of self-therapy, allowing the author to organize his previously hidden emotions and settle accounts with the past.