Magda Jaroszewicz

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.

Eighteen year old Emilia is struggling with loneliness in her life. Her father has left and her mother is never at home. She meets different men, but they only give her temporary satisfaction. Then there is a change. Her thirteen year old brother, Josef, is about to step over an invisible boundary between siblings and change their relationship forever.

The viewer is an observer of one night at one street. The filmmaker is an observer of one night at one street. The distant eye is getting closer and makes the images sharper but the interpretation stays inside the observer's head. What one makes out of that night is his/her own story. The starting point is an image provided by the observing eye. The eye is a guide. The viewer gives the night a meaning.