Twelve-year-old Iwo lives in a small, post-communist town that is home to the old and destroyed Black Mill – once a place of work for many parents. Breaking the promise to not approach the old mill, the children accidentally unleash its evil powers. From that moment, nothing will ever be the same again as people and things start to disappear.
Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?
A well-known financier and his bankrupt friend, who plan to rob a corrupt politician-bribe, a policeman who loves to fatten up demonstrators, and two ladies of lighter disposition are locked up in a boarding house for hours at a time by a sanitation official for a whole 10 days - a forced quarantine.
