Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
Mei, a daughter of immigrants living in Poland, dreams of becoming a pianist. Trying to combine the colliding cultures she lives in she takes a step that can’t be undone. Starting adolescence she must choose between her family and her own happiness.
A story of the first infatuation of the main character – Łucja, which is obstructed by her possessive mother. It is also a story of values and barriers, which in a small community are the only indicators of truth and action. This is a world where words don’t matter at all.
