
Mothers' Instinct(2024)
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.


“She can't recall her life. She will live it again.”
Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter.

Gabriela Muskała
Kinga Słowik / Alicja

Łukasz Simlat
Krzysztof Słowik

Halina Rasiakówna
Kinga's mother

Zbigniew Waleryś
Marian Kwiatkowski

Małgorzata Buczkowska
Ewa
Piotr Skiba
Michał Nowakowski

Iwo Rajski
Daniel Słowik

Klara Bielawka
Justyna

Dariusz Chojnacki
Darek

Ewa Błaszczyk
TV Program Host
Fugue is a thriller, drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of motherhood. Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, it stars Gabriela Muskała, Łukasz Simlat, Halina Rasiakówna. Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter.
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