Jacek Kadaj

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Film

Łódź, Poland, June 1996. Twenty-three classmates pose for a school photograph — in a city whose textile mills are falling silent, and an adulthood ahead that will scatter them across the earth. Thirty years later, one of them — now a woman of forty — returns to that photograph late at night. Through her voice we meet the whole class, one by one: who left, who stayed, who is gone. But the longer she speaks about the others, the clearer it becomes there is someone she will not speak about. An AI-generated poetic documentary about memory, emigration and the price of silence — a generation's story told so that one person's story would not have to be.