Border Crossing
Humming, sluggish summer of 1989, the final year of communism in Eastern Europe. A family of three reaches the Czechoslovakian-Polish border and joins a long queue. Bees are buzzing around them as they are enclosed in a small space together. The atmosphere thickens. The border guard with a dog is pacing along the queue. With the little girl on the back seat we wade into the incomprehensible world of the adults. Is she capable of breaking into the border guard's icy heart?...