In a world destroyed by an ecological catastrophe, an old mercenary suffering from a severe lung disease looks for a way to retire and finds a seemingly simple job of escorting a girl to a designated place. On the way, he uncovers a secret that will push him to set his priorities straight. The film is a directing debut.

Mira gets up early in the morning, hangs the laundry to dry, she buys fish food and ... decides to rob a bank with a kitchen knife.

Grodno, eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On the 1st of September 1939 German planes bomb the city and one of the bombs hits Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek’s school. The world of carefree childhood, playfulness and first infatuations comes to an end in both a literal and symbolic way. Leoś is twelve, a Jewish boy, fascinated with the Polish independence tradition. By virtue of the Soviet-German treaty, the Red Army enters...