Bedrock draws a psychological portrait of Poland from the perspective of Poles living on Holocaust sites today. This observational documentary is a quiet and subtle journey through a land where the bones of victims and the architecture of extermination are intimately intertwined with the protagonists’ lives.
A little girl visits her friend in a psychiatric hospital that was once a concentration camp. A young Polish Jew takes on the impossible task of rescuing the remains of Jewish victims from destruction across the country. A Catholic family argues about Polish complicity in a local pogrom as its annual commemoration approaches. Soccer fans from the village of Birkenau celebrate the victory of their local team.
As we follow the protagonists navigating spaces of trauma in their everyday routines, layers of identity, memory, and complicity are slowly revealed. The film examines the echoes of a violent past to confront a dystopian present.