Tall Mountain

Mother’s leaving for a perilous mountaineering expedition coincides with Ewa starting a new job at a medical simulation center.

While caring for humanoid patients in an artificial hospital, Ewa develops a bond with a birthing robot Victoria. As Victoria’s pregnancy progresses, the robot seems to Ewa increasingly alive. Meanwhile Mother climbs higher, and Ewa grows strangely anxious about Mother’s life. The BDSM play and fetish community provides Ewa with release from inner tension.

Higher Mother climbs, larger Victoria’s pregnancy, deeper Ewa descends into the fetish underground and medical simulation – when Mother stops giving signs of life.

Medical and erotic worlds collide when Ewa faces Mother’s abandonment, and the gruesome reasons that caused it, hidden deep in the past.

Tall Mountain explores the intersections between the medical and erotic worlds to probe the ambiguous borders between care and violence both in medical institutions – and in the family relations. Set in contemporary Poland, Tall Mountain explores the trans-generational ruptures caused by the conservative catholic culture and perverted idea of motherhood, which Ewa subverts in the least evident of ways – to reconnect with Mother.