Twenty-nine-year-old Wojtek, an unemployed gamer, receives a court order to leave the house of his mother, Joanna, within a month. An argument breaks out between the characters, after which Wojtek finds Joanna unconscious at the entrance to the stairs. The diagnosis indicates a brain stem injury, resulting in the so-called lock-in syndrome. Joanna is conscious, but apart from her eyes, she is unable to move. Her chance of regaining fitness may be increased by expensive rehabilitation.—G