EditFuga (2018)

Alicja lever et stille ”normalt” liv i en mindre polsk provinsby med mand og barn, indtil hun en dag forsvinder som dug for solen. To år senere anholdes hun i Warszawa, nu med stort strithår, iført leopard leggins og uden erindring om sit tidligere liv. For at komme til bunds i sagen, tilbydes hun at deltage i et TV-program omhandlende forsvundne personer. Da hendes far ringer ind under udsendelsen, bliver Alicja nu nødt til at konfrontere sin fortid og prøve at genoptage sit gamle liv med en mand og et barn, som hun ikke husker at have følt nogen kærlighed for, og som er helt fremmede for hende… ”Kvinden, der glemte sin fortid” omhandler den psykiske lidelse dissociativ fugue, en sjælden mental sygdom, hvor personen pludselig mister hukommelsen, for ofte at forlade sit hjem og påtage sig en ny identitet, der står i skarp kontrast til den, som vedkommende var.

An anonymous woman emerges from the darkness on the tracks of a city train station. With the visible symptoms of experienced shock, with scratches and bruises on her face and body, she cannot remember anything about herself. The woman has no idea who she was, from where does she comes, but most importantly, it is impossible for her to say her name. Being named Alicja, the woman undergoes a number of medical checks, including psychological tests. Two years later, no one knows who Alicja actually was but most perplexing is that no one has been looking for her. After a TV talk show, a man calls, claiming that this is his daughter Kinga, a wife and mother of a young kid. Alicja/Kinga come home to her family and makes efforts to fit in her ‘new’ life but without success. Her reappearance is not as welcomed as it should be.