Mira’s Fire

After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Mira finds herself in a state of limbo. Working as a firefighter in a local unit in a Polish province on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic helps her distract herself from her grief but confronts her with the driest and hottest summer in her life. The rest of the family is critical of Mira’s career choice and also resents her way of grieving. But what Mira passes off as courage at the fire unit is actually a deep sense of loneliness. As she mourns her loss, Mira witnesses a terrible water shortage in her village and municipality that is increasingly enacting radical water-rationing regulations. She realizes that the water shortage is not due to God’s plan but to concrete decisions made by the municipality itself. Looking to expose them, Mira puts her family at great risk and comes into contact with a part of herself that is stronger than her despair, which leads her to a previously unimagined radicalism.