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Klara (23), art student, single child brought up in a traditional family, leads an easy and comfortable life. Her father is a writer and her mother owns a prosperous art gallery; Klara considers them a perfect couple. Her life changes dramatically one day when she happens to find the dead body of her father in his sleeping room and with a gun in his hand.
Death of her father comes as a landmark in Klara’s life. Klara suspects that she is pregnant what makes her to think about her life seriously. She somehow considers herself not mature enough to set a family and she starts to doubt that her boyfriend – Robert – is the man she would like to spend the rest of her life with.
The police dismiss the case because it classifies it as a suicide: the door was closed, neither fingerprints nor another marks indicating someone else’s presence in the apartment were found, nothing was missing and no reason to commit the crime was identified.
Klara cannot agree with such a conclusion. She believes she knew her father well enough to exclude that he killed himself. On the other hand she feels guilty, as she had a big argument with her father the day before he died; following the argument she moved to her boyfriend’s place.
Klara can’t free yourself from the suspect that she could be on of the reasons that her father died and that’s why she starts her private investigation, desperately seeking another people to blame.
During the investigation Klara finds out the affairs she would never expect. She discovers that her father rented an apartment for dating with his mistresses, meets the women he was involved with short before he died. One of them – Renata – is the wife of her father’s best friend; Klara considers her as an empty-headed, unfeeling person. The second one – Krystyna – Klara suspects of affection to her father, but the woman remains that they had only professional relationship. Apart from that it appears that Klara’s mother had a romance at the same time. When Klara realizes that the marriage of her parents was a fool’s paradise she starts to reconcile herself with the conclusion that her father could have many reasons to take his life.
Klara, on the contrary to viewer, will never find out that Krystyna was an eyewitness of the death of her father, or even the cause why he had died (who eventually pulled the trigger is the open question). However she won’t have to know this. It’s enough she grew wise to run her life better. Klara will make sure about her feelings for her boyfriend Robert. She will decide that he is the right person to spend the rest of her life with.
Izabela Szylko
I graduated from the Journalist Faculty at the Warsaw University and also took one year course on television direction and production techniques at Media Production Services (London).
In the years 1991 - 2001 I was working for the Polish Television, Channel 2 an then Channel 3 (TVP) making documentaries. My documentary "Nothing Wrong Can Happen to Me" ("Nic mi się złego nie może stać") was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Catholic Films in Niepokalanów (1993).
As an independent producer I made several films for American Agency for International Development (USAID) describing their activities in Poland.
In 2006 my debut novel "Madonna with Hyacinth" ("Madonna z hiacyntem") was one of the winners in the competition for best criminal story organized by Rzeczpospolita Publishing House (the book was published in 2007).
In 2008 I directed my feature debut "The Reliable System" ("Niezawodny system") based on my own screenplay.
