If you want to watch a bureaucrat debate existentialism with a duck while a secret police informant takes notes on a napkin? Then is your new obsession.
Is it a satire of dehumanization under authoritarian rule? A surrealist critique of factory farming? Or just Żebrowski’s psychotic break captured on 35mm?
Let’s set the stage: 1983. Poland is under martial law. Solidarity is crushed. Censorship is absolute. And somehow, Żebrowski—a documentarian known for dry agricultural films—gets funding for a 72-minute feature.
Two men and a woman wake up in a desert landscape after the bombs drop. As they struggle to find food (including a memorable run-in with an "army of crabs"), they eventually find a lush jungle paradise led by a mysterious dog.