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Marcin, in his early twenties and armed with a knife, takes the lift to the door of a tower block flat, from which he's met half way by a young girl: “My parents aren't at home!” she exclaims in passing, as she heads out to a party. Marcin follows her, they spend the night together and Ola then takes him home. The following morning Ola's parents await him at the breakfast table: Her father is an architect, her mother a stage designer and Ola, who awoke and set off hours ago, studies at the local academy of arts. An overly idyllic world one might say? When Ola's father asks if Marcin would care to join them at the family mountain cabin Marcin agrees, only to strangle him at a forest rest stop on the way, not however without announcing his intention to do the same to his wife. Back in the city Marcin pays Ola a visit, whereupon they head out to the next party. When Ola's mother discovers him on a bench in front of the house the next day, she also suggests a trip to the mountains...

That the film doesn't end happily is a fact the viewer can deduce from the outset. The redemptive answer as to why however is something Skonieczny keeps from viewers until the closing scenes. Is Martin a rebel without a cause similar to James Dean, an icon of a lost generation shaped by disorientation and rebellion against the complacency of their parents' generation? All the signs suggest so.