In the Ukrainian Carpathians, large Western companies threaten to destroy the existence of the forestry owned by Sylwia’s family. In order to make some urgently needed money, Sylwia agrees to help smuggle refugees across the nearby external EU border.
A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
Six twenty-somethings meet at a lakeside summerhouse. This is their first time getting together since high school. Some of them have started careers, while others have not. Some of them enjoy the pleasures in life, while others vent their hidden frustrations. The seventh character is a young Ukrainian named Solomia who works at the same company as one of the evening’s protagonists, Igor. Solomia is an outsider and is at times an object of hatred on the part of Hubert, who persuades the others, drunk and lost, to take part in an act of violence against the girl.
Años 60, Polonia. Una joven ilusionada con la búsqueda de la fé y la religión, esta a punto de tomar sus votos y convertirse en monja, aquello que siempre ha deseado. Se ha preparado duramente durante largos años y convertida en una novicia modelo decide entregarse totalmente a su religión. Todo cambia en el momento en el que se entera de un secreto que atormentaba a toda su familia. Sus antepasados se vieron envueltos durante la ocupación nazi con terribles consecuencias, ante tales acontecimientos decide emprender una larga lucha para conocer la verdad.
