The main character of the new film by Agnieszka Holland is living in the Sudetenland, a retired inżynierka Janina Duszejko. Astrologer with passion and vegetarian. One snowy, winter night he finds the body of his neighbor poacher. The circumstances of the death of a man are very mysterious. The only traces that were found around his home, signs of deer. Duszejko, seeing the impotence of the police, start your own, unconventional investigation.