Three young berlins from the Spirit Center community, taking care of the spiritual development of their members by means of yoga, meditation, shamanic rituals or lessons of survival in the forest, decide to go to the Polish countryside. As befits true pilgrims, Ellen, Mario and Jon go to the East, to the border of Poland with Belarus, where they rent a hundred-year-old wooden house from a local host, Stanisław. They want to spend their holidays here, work in the field and be close to nature and culture - in their opinion unpolluted by civilization. The newcomers and the locals were portrayed in the document Trzaski as two foreign tribes, watching each other with distrust, through which, however, mutual fascination passes through. From the perspective of farmers, Germany gives the impression of harmless fools (how can you not eat meat and wash naked in front of the whole village?), Which, however, can be envied by enjoyment and freedom. Germany is discovering that running a farm is not a romantic idyll, but a hard job - on its own land. Other lifestyles, other values, different languages, even different music - is there anything that connects these two worlds? Maybe just a dream that somewhere is better, a real life?

Małgorzata Sadowska