This leaves Łukasz completely devastated and leads him to a suicide attempt.Īfter some time of depression, Łukasz starts to accept his situation. When Łukasz, packed and ready to go, happily says goodbyes to his cellmates, the guard opens the door and tells Łukasz to unpack, and it was all just a joke. One day a prison guard tells Łukasz to pack his things, as he is about to be released. One time he is forced to drink a mixture of detergents as a punishment for accidentally breaking one of the cell's rules. Łukasz, while trying to adjust to life in prison, is haunted by nightmares and continuously teased by Albert. Dawid's wife comes to see him every week, but during those visits they merely look at each other and do not say a word. After that, he came to the police himself. Next day Kosior tells Łukasz Dawid's story: his wife was assaulted and raped, and Dawid found and beat to death the rapist. Unexpectedly Dawid grabs Albert and threatens to break his neck, if he ever hears talk like that from him again. One evening, Albert tells the cellmates a supposedly funny story of his friends, who kidnapped a girl and forced her into performing oral sex. The lawyer tells Łukasz that he will do his best to get him out of prison, but the investigation may take months before anything could be done. The lawyer informs Łukasz that the prosecutor means to accuse him not only of robbery, but also unintentional homicide, as the woman who recognized him as the robber, died just a few hours later. Some time later Łukasz is visited in prison by an attorney hired by his mother. Following days Roman teaches Łukasz the basic rules of living in prison, while Kosior teaches him about the "grypsera". Siwy then reveals that it was just a tease, indeed meaning to check whether Łukasz would really do it. Scared Łukasz doesn't answer anything to that but later is willing to take part in the fight, knowing he would be considered a coward if he refused. Łukasz is right away teased by Albert, and by Siwy, who tells him that they will have a fist fight in the evening. Łukasz is led to a cell in which he meets his new cellmates - Kosior, the apparent cell leader, arrested for murdering his partner in crime Siwy ("Grey"), a member of the mob Albert, a minor mobster Roman, arrested for avoiding paying child maintenance, who is visibly the lowest in the cell hierarchy and Dawid, a very quiet man who spends most of his time reading books and seems to take no active part in the prison subculture, but is treated with respect by other prisoners anyway. The prison worker is surprised by this and warns Łukasz he will not be able to handle it, but eventually agrees to place him in a cell with the subculture members. As a result, when Łukasz is later interviewed by a member of the prison staff, who is about to decide where to place him, Łukasz insists that he wants to take part in the "grypsera". He also scares Łukasz that if he does not join the subculture, he is likely to become "a loser" and would be abused by other prisoners. Zborek also asks Łukasz if he is willing to become a "git" - a member of the prison subculture known as "grypsera" (which is also a Polish term for a prison slang used by its members), considered to be an elite among the prisoners. Zborek explains to Łukasz that he is most likely to spend no less than a year in prison before his trial.
He is first put into a transition cell, in which he meets Zborek, a man arrested for car theft. Łukasz is then transferred into prison for a pre-trial detention. The officer who interrogates him informs Łukasz he's arrested and is unlikely to go back home any time soon. He maintains his innocence, but is unable to provide any alibi. Łukasz does not understand anything that is happening, and is shocked to learn, during an interrogation, that he has been recognized by an elderly woman, a robbery victim, as the culprit. He is forced to take part in a police lineup. He is approached by policemen, who without any questions or explanation handcuff him and take him to the police car.
On a very rainy evening a young man, Łukasz Machnacki, comes out of a cinema. Although it is not explicitly explained, it is implied that this scene takes part after the rest of the action of the movie. The guard writes "suicide" as a probable cause of death. In the first scene of the movie, before the title credits, a prison guard is seen writing a report from an event in one of the cells, in which a dead body was found. Symmetry ( Polish: Symetria) is a 2003 Polish drama film directed by Konrad Niewolski.
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