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Who hasn't come across him, the narcissistic overbearing father, so self-absorbed that the needs of his wife and children occur as nothing more than an afterthought? And woe betide the children if they should have the audacity to be born girls: “My daughters, the cows,” how should they ever match up to him! Whereupon one of them goes on the offensive and mutates into a hard-nosed businesswoman, as does Marta, the elder of the two, whilst the other, Kasia, finds comfort by living up to her father's prejudice: eternally unable to get her act together, as she stumbles from one esoteric ray of hope to the next.

This set of arrangements is shaken to the core however, by both the mother's imminent death and the fact that father turns out a mere mortal like the rest of us after all.  Director Kinga Dębska's highly sympathetic family portrait demonstrates how all involved are pushed to the limit, and yet still find it within themselves to go that extra mile. A moving, tragicomic take on the strength of family bonds. PN