Agnieszka Holland’s new film, inspired by real events, shows that the division of people into “us” and “the others”, or of “lower” and “higher” categories, is a reality even in today’s Europe. Bashir’s family finds itself in a loop of endless shuttling between guards on the Polish and Belarusian sides of the border. The only people who offer help and simple kindness are the members of a local activist group. The film bears raw testimony to the fact that inhumanity and cruelty are not a thing of the past.