A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.

Panda is twenty-eight and, in her opinion, living out the worst possible scenario. She’s dropped out of university and lives with her neurotic mother and her grandmother, a tarot reader. She can’t find a job and dreads the prospect of becoming a hairdresser. One day, she decides to face her misfortune head-on and leaves the house for the first time in ages — to buy some yoghurt.

A provincial police unit raids a forest moonshine operation but is ambushed, leaving one officer wounded and the bootlegger at large, while simultaneously a young woman’s body is found drifting on a lake. Pregnant Sub-Inspector Iza Dereń juggles these intertwined investigations, helped by her junior colleague Marzec, just as two fellow officers, including her partner, vanish.