Her mom's death and her sister's threat to seize the family home push single mother Ela to the brink. Ela's perky attitude uplifts her co-workers at the meat factory in her picturesque, but economically-strapped town in Southern Poland. Whether dashing down her innovative recipes in her dreary kitchen, or jauntily toting entrails to the plant's dumpster, Ela dreams of a better life. Especially when the new garbage truck driver, just back from Iraq, and looking like Lance Armstrong, pulls up to the dumpster.—David Stevens