Illusion

Have you ever heard of Pando? It’s the largest organism in the world: it looks like a poplar forest, but in fact all the trunks have the same DNA and grow from a single root system. When walking through it, you might get an impression that you are walking through a forest, but don’t succumb to the illusion - it is one giant tree. As Hanna (Agata Buzek) explains this to her students, she interrupts the lesson, despite her attempts to maintain a semblance of normality, she is not in the best of health. A few months earlier her teenage daughter went missing. The police are helpless and are about to close the case, so Hanna and her husband (Marcin Czarnik) are looking for alternative solutions: detectives, clairvoyants, before Hanna ultimately starts her own investigation. However, it is difficult for her, and for the viewer, to distinguish reality from illusion. Shot in the magical coastal Tricity landscapes in Poland, the movie by Marta Minorowicz, director of the poetic movie Zud, screened at the Berlinale, and combines elements of a detective story with a psychological portrait of a person whose world has become curved and out of focus.