Monika Dawidziuk

When Gośka meets Grzesiek online, she's sure he's her Mr. Right. Grzesiek is crazy about her, showers her with flowers, and proposes in Venice, but soon enough, the picture perfect romance starts to crumble, revealing a darker side.

Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been.

Bartek learns that his teenage son is the perpetrator of a murder at school. The distraught boy runs to his dad, so the man hides out with him in his fiancée's flat. As he tries to get everything under control, he grows up to confront the truth about his son and himself as a father.

When confronted by her most private desire at her grandmother's funeral, a young Polish-American woman struggles to navigate her truth and her familial pressure to conform.

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?