Film created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, telling the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandist tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a locus of auto-fictional memories, with their scientific register shifted towards a treatment of images themselves as specimens.
Wera is a young painter, she has a beautiful house immersed in greenery overlooking a lake, a handsome husband who earns a lot, a funny dog Chagall and a brutal diagnosis of an incurable disease. The couple must face the inevitability of her illness, but their reactions are extremely different.
