Poland 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother’s sister Wanda. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s film is the first Polish feature to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, coming after a myriad of other prizes and unanimously positive reviews all around the world.