A perfect young Polish pair rents a recreation house on an Italian island. However, the house’s swimming pool is broken. Disregarding the fact that the entire island faces a lack of water, they demand repairs. When the repairman – an illegal immigrant – then arrives, he shatters their visions of calm and safety and ignites a chain of events that forces them to act instinctively and irrationally. A story of alienation – not only from each other, but also from a world where the hunt for comfort turns into a fight for survival.

Aga Woszczyńska

This Polish director and screenwriter studied at the National Film School in Łódź. Her 2014 short film Fragments was shown at Cannes. She contributed to two films by Wojciech Smarzowski, Clergy (2018) and Hatred (2016). Her debut Silent Land premiered in Toronto and was also shown at festivals in Zürich, Chicago, Thessaloniki, and Goteborg.