This film begins like a beautiful, semi-realistic ballad. People dance nestled in each other on a meadow full of flowers. But this is an illusion, destroyed at the beginning of the next scene. Like previous films of Ewa Borzecka, this one will be a subject for discussions on sociological subjects. The story is about beggars, who have nothing to eat, have no place to live and have no chance for better living. Their stories are recorded in dilapidated places (cellars, Warsaw Central Station, etc.), places that wake up fear in our minds. We listen to the beggars´ stories, and we reckon that they are not guilty for their misery; that this is the consequence of being abandoned in childhood or being assaulted by lack of love. Their world is depressing. If they want something to eat, they have to find it in bins. This world is so depressing that sometimes the only solution is to burn oneself as a desperate protest and to show the misery of other people. Borzecka shows the misery, from searching in the bins, to the men who live in the sewers, to the crowds in the homeless penitentiary. Many of them are educated people, but have lost their homes and jobs because of different accidents. After the motion picture Arizona, Ewa Borzecka was called the 'conscience of the media.' Yet again she has made a film that is going to be a kind of intentional letter.
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