The film traces the evolution of twenty year old Zyga who after the fall of communism witnesses to the complete degradation of life around him. The promised post-communist land never comes to his home town, while the Germans across the border seem to have it all. Handing out stolen Adidas trainers and RayBans to his peers the local Robin Hood turns into a garden-style gangster. The neo Western, with music by Polish lead singer, songwriter, and leader of the band Kult Kazik Staszewski is part of a larger wave in Polish Cinema of looking back towards the communist past and finding little gems of novelty and amid the drab memories of the past.
Thumbnail credit: Film still, photo: Bartosz Mrozowski / Kino Świat