After a particularly embarrassing performance, a struggling Polish actor chooses to quit his acting troupe. In desperation, he returns home, only to find his dying mother has replaced him with a farm hand from a nearby mental institution. Alienated and depressed, he attempts to find his place in the world by driving out his replacement as completely as possible.
A identidade é o prinicpal tema do novo filme da diretora polonesa Malgorzata Szumowska que fala sobre o angustiante conflito existencial de um homem que sente que perdeu-se de si mesmo após um radical transplante facial.