ONO / STRANGER

Eva, a young woman who works in a petrol station, is pregnant. The father’s done a bunk. She intends to have an abortion, but a stranger steals her money on her way to the clinic. She happens to overhear a doctor telling a mother-to-be that unborn children can already hear sounds: this information sparks off a revolution in her own life. After she decides to keep the baby, her formerly bleak daily life turns into an acoustic adventure able to be negotiated by the power of listening. If despair was in the foreground of Szumowska’s feature debut SZCZĘŚLIWY CZŁOWIEK / HAPPY MAN, hope comes to the fore in ONO / STRANGER.