A twenty-year-old fresh out of youth detention wants to enter the seminary and can't — his criminal record won't allow it — so when he's sent to a sawmill job in a small Polish town and mistaken for a visiting priest, he accepts the collar. What starts as an impersonation becomes something harder to classify, as the community he inherits happens to be in the middle of a wound no real clergy has managed to touch. Bielenia, pale and hollow-eyed, is the film.
