Your digital ID dies. The state brands you enemy. Your wife? Gone. Welcome to Poland's gay dystopia.
When her digital Citizen Pass fails, a mother is branded a threat by an authoritarian system and must travel to Warsaw to reclaim her rights, triggering an investigation that could destroy her family.
Acting
Kasia Borek's silent panic in checkpoint scenes
Direction
Ryczko's cramped frames that suffocate beautifully
Production
Warsaw's brutalist architecture as character
Director
Patricia Ryczko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released as Poland's 'LGBT-free zones' made international headlines, making its near-future setting feel queasily present.
Ryczko cited Kafka's 'The Trial' and her own passport renewal nightmare as dual inspirations for the checkpoint sequences.
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