When will you get a boyfriend? Why won’t you eat meat? Why is it like this every year? Why are you always being interrogated about your private life and your weight? A young woman grows tired of the relentless questioning from her relatives. Thankfully, she’s not entirely alone — a loyal and supportive companion is always by her side. Just when she meets a potential partner and appears to be inching toward fulfilling her family’s expectations, a fateful twist shatters her reality.

A paper animation in the age of romantic fasting. Between personal well-being and societal expectations — this is the taut thread on which Szlembarska’s latest short film balances, served this time with a vegetarian twist. A graduate of the Łódź Film School, the filmmaker continues to refine her monochrome style, now turning her gaze to a woman’s role in her own life, where monogamy stands as the ideal, yet a little fish may be hiding somewhere between the two.