Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a very risky trick.
Acting
Damian Ul's raw, unscripted-feeling performance as Stefek.
Cinematography
Golden-hour Polish railway town, shot like memory itself.
Direction
Jakimowski lets kids be kids — messy, cruel, hopeful.
Director
Andrzej Jakimowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jakimowski cast non-professional kids from the actual town, building the script around their real behaviors and dialogue.
The railway setting mirrors Poland's 2000s rural depopulation — fathers leave for work, children inherit absence as normal.
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