A sensitive eighteen-year-old and a young gangster meet at a psychiatric hospital. She has been sent there by her parents, who don’t accept her oversensitivity. He’s under observation. Their casual acquaintance grows into something more — challenging and, in the opinion of many, doomed to failure.

Aniela is an old lady living in a ruined villa near Warsaw. After years of sharing her house with lodgers, she’s finally alone. She can feel at home again, but quickly realises that her son, Witek, is neither willing to move in with her nor to renovate her house. To make matters worse, he tries to sell it behind her back to a nouveau riche neighbour who complains that the...

Six-year-old Stefek challenges Providence. He believes that provoking a chain of small events will bring him closer to his father, who left his mother for another woman. Stefek’s sister, seventeen-year-old Elka, teaches him how to bribe fate with small offerings. But at the decisive moment, the children have nothing to sacrifice. In his game with destiny, Stefek decides to raise the stakes dangerously high.