The film talks about Laura who is a sixth-grader living in rural Poland, the hearing daughter of two deaf parents. As an only child, she spends a lot of her time translating and interpreting for her parents, accompanying them to the hardware store, helping them negotiate a bank loan, and calling in sick days for her father. Like any teenager, Laura gets annoyed at times, but she also revels in the fact that she can easily keep personal secrets from her parents. Laura’s situation is reminiscent to that of the children of recent immigrants, who acquire the new language more quickly and must translate for their parents, learning the bureaucracies of the world much sooner than their peers. Except in Laura’s case, her parents will never be able to “learn” spoken Polish. As Laura says, they’ll always live in their own world.