Swimming pool

Some Maria, some Krystyna, some Janina, some Elżbieta, some Andrzej... Somewhere between attacks of sciatica and rabies — they learn to swim in the city pool. It's nice to stand next to someone and feel like you have a body. You can talk to people and not sit at home in front of the TV. Stupidity itself. There used to be no TVs and it was better.

Now they're trying not to breathe. Inhale. And exhale under water. Dying exercises. They giggle. Once one pretends to be dead and the other holds, and then they switch. They are a little afraid that they will begin to learn and not live to be satisfied.

Magdalena Drab's “Swimming Pool” is a humorous story about old age — for everyone: old, young and middle-aged. A moving spectacle about how to stay on the surface of life, find meaning in small gestures and support in the other person.