Synopsis

A young boy decides to cut himself off completely from his former life. He leaves his family, friends and school. He gives up everything he has known and lives on a small island in a lake. No internet. The protagonist is deeply disappointed with the world. He is looking for a space of unfettered expression, intimacy, simple “just being”. In a youthful, idealistic rebellion, he dreams of rejecting all norms. He is tired of and genuinely uninterested in the internet, culture, education, religion and their institutions. He wants to not have to do anything and live his life by the lake. His romantic desire for wild freedom provokes strong reactions and emotions from those closest to him. At various stages of seclusion he is visited by a succession of uninvited guests: his parents, his English teacher, his priest, his older brother. His courage and non-conformism force him into difficult confrontations. Will the outside world force him to leave the island?

Original/Alternative Title: Jeziorko