Search and find! Zhurek is a popular dish of Polish cuisine, a vegetable soup based on tiny kvass. The same hearty and saturated with lively folk characters was a television film directed by Ryszard Brylsky, based on the story of Olga Tokarchuk. The film has collected many awards at Polish film festivals, but the Russian viewer the tape may be interesting primarily because of the participation in it known at one time actress. Katarzyna Figure (Alya in Kingsise by Juliusz Machulski) is a sex symbol of the Polish film screen, generously gifted by nature in dramatic and no less physical terms, for the successful embodiment of a rather unexpected image for herself as the best actress in 2004 was awarded the Eagle - the highest award of the Polish Film Academy.
In the life of Halina, the heroine of the Figure, two events have recently happened. One of them was tragic – her husband committed suicide. Another - the birth of a son to a fifteen-year-old daughter Ivonka (Natalia Rybicka, in 2004 was also awarded the Polish Film Academy award for her supporting role in this film) - also did not bring much joy to the family. The girl is slightly behind in development from her peers, and the awakened sexuality pushes her to strange actions. Khalina wants to baptize the child before Christmas, swears to find her father at her husband’s grave, but the daughter can not remember who he is.
The film is permeated with the idea of restless wandering of a person thrown to the periphery of the social environment. “The board, another board...” the mother and daughter repeat endlessly, going in search of the father of the child. It seems that their wanderings are meaningless, but on Christmas Eve, when miracles are only possible, a solution is suddenly found.