State of Affairs

When her mother dies, 35-year-old Aga moves from Germany back home in Poland to look after her teenage brother, Miłosz. She starts playing the role of both mother and father to him, but there is one thing she isn’t telling him about. It’s her long-term romantic relationship with another woman, Maja. How can Aga tell Miłosz, the product of a deeply conservative Polish culture, that she and Maja are more than best friends? Will the three of them manage to build a new model of a family in the midst of a xenophobic and closed Polish community? Silent Love delicately narrates their discreet struggle against a viscerally homophobic society, as they simply try to exist as a family unit. It’s a tender story about the courage to love despite all the fears.