Rafał Kosecki

After seven years abroad, Natalia returns to Poland, where she left behind her young daughter, Hela, and mother, Zofia. Determined to become a mother to her daughter again, she soon realizes it may be too late to enter Hela’s world—a world she abandoned years ago, once ruled by her domineering father.

Jurek is 23 years old and he is a history student. He lives with his loving auntie, who raises him and supports him. Feeling that she is a cause and a symbol of his existential boredom, monotony and malaise, he reaches for the hammer…