Oscar-nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) stars in this gripping cold-war thriller.

"Kasia Adamik’s film benefits from an urgency and a specific sense of place that make it frequently gripping." – Slant Magazine

"Lesley Manville delivers a quietly commanding performance in a film that transforms a bleak winter landscape into a tense, emotionally rich portrait of resistance and survival." – Next Best Picture

Joan Andrews (Manville), a British professor visiting Warsaw for a conference in 1981, finds herself in terrible danger as martial law is imposed during her visit. With the borders closed and Joan herself becoming a witness to a murder, the academic finds herself in terrible danger with a target on her back.

Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Torkarczuk’s acclaimed short story “Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw,” director Kasia Adamik brings to life a chilling, brutalist nightmare in this tense cold-war thriller.