Ode to Joy

This is the second part of a trilogy by three young directors: three stories and three visions of the Polish reality of today.What united Anna Kazejak,Maciej Migas, and Jan Komasa was not only the directing class at the Lodz Film School,but the need to make a film about their generation, its aspirations and values. In this film, they examine the motivations of those who decide to leave Poland.This phenomenon has been gathering momentum now that the borders of Europe are open, but has never yet been tackled in Polish cinema: the plight of a new generation, with its lack of prospects, and parents unwilling to take intheir boomerang children,having fallen victim themselves to Polish-style capitalism. All this makes the young willing to try their luck in the ‘better’world... Each filmmaker directed one of the three parts, but the stories unfold at the same time, with a common finale on board a coach traveling to London