Your teenage crush's dad just became your sugar daddy. Awkward.
Krister, a middle-aged Swede of Polish origin, has been retreating from the modern world. His life, on a small island near Stockholm, has turned into an uneventful slow death. His memories of Poland, a country he visited during his teenage years, are just as sad. The only reason he goes back is because he inherits a cottage in the Polish countryside. When he arrives in Warsaw, Krister is surprised by the city's modern infrastructure and by its outward signs of wealth. The butcher's shop he used to go to is now a sex shop, and his teenage friend Grzegorz is now a very respectable eye surgeon and gay. Krister is in for an even bigger shock as he meets twenty something Ewa. Krister thinks he is falling in love with her, which gives him a new zest for life. His discovery that she is a porn actress only adds to his obsession until he learns that their meeting is no accident, she is his daughter.
Acting
Tomas Norström's dead-eyed desperation is uncomfortably real.
Direction
Porembny turns Poland into a funhouse mirror of Krister's collapse.
Director
Edward Porembny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes Poland's post-communist transformation—Krister's butcher-to-sex-shop trauma mirrors his own obsolescence.
The 86-minute runtime is almost cruelly brief, denying Krister (and us) any redemption arc. The inheritance is the curse itself.
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