37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
Acting
Wiśniewska's mother: passive-aggression as performance art.
Direction
Piekorz frames every room like a trap closing slowly.
Writing
No villains, just people too damaged to love right.
Director
Magdalena Piekorz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Polish 'kino kobiece' (women's cinema) often explores matriarchal oppression disguised as care; Piekorz belongs to a wave including Smarzowski's female collaborators who weaponize domestic spaces.
The 76-minute runtime is deliberate suffocation—any longer would feel survivable, and this film doesn't want you to survive it comfortably.
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