Hel

A confident directing debut from Kinga Debska, Hel takes us down the bottomless pit of drug addiction through its main character Piotr, a successful psychiatrist with a history of heroine addiction. Years since his last relapse, Piotr now juggles his stressful work at the hospital with maintaining his second marriage and re-connecting to his estranged son. Things seem to be going well on all fronts until one night Piotr has to treat a junkie in withdrawal, and is reminded of his old days. Debska follows the effects of Piotr's downward spiral, showing the inevitable dissolution of his relationships with those closest to him. A heart-wrenching film that shows the tragedy of a good man compelled to do wrong at the cost of everything he holds dear.