Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and post-socialist yuppies who after 1989 teamed up with their former enemies to exploit Poland ruthlessly.
2차대전이 발발하기 직전의 폴란드, 마을의 분위기는 뒤숭숭하지만 젊은 청년인 비텍은 의사가 되기 위해 열심히 공부를 한다. 도시에서 학교를 다니다 시험을 앞두고 잠시 시골 집에 돌아온 비텍은 우연히 아름다운 소녀를 만나 마음을 뺏긴다. 타데우시 콘비츠키가 쓴 동명의 소설이 원작이다.
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
