[4][5] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.

The film is set in a remote mountainous region of the Kłodzko Valley in south-western Poland, where an eccentric elderly woman, Janina Duszejko, lives with her two dogs.

Her dogs disappear one day while she is giving a local woman, nicknamed Dobra Nowina, a ride to the store.

She confronts her neighbour who she calls "Big Foot", a notorious poacher in whose traps animals die in agony.

Dobra Nowina has a younger brother who is being abused by their father and has attempted to gain custody of him but learns that Wnetrzak has reported her as unfit twice.

Later Duszejko discovers the body of a young boar and attempts to report an off-season killing of the animal but is laughed off by the police.

There is another flashback where she lures Wnetrzak to the forest using a ruse about money she had found and she strikes him on the head until he dies, after which she goes to his fox farm and releases all the animals.

When Dyzio learns that the church is on fire and the priest is dead, he goes with Dobra Nowina to see Matoga and finds him sitting with Duszejko at her kitchen table.

They hand Dobra Nowina a photo which shows all the local hunters displaying the spoils of a hunt, which included Duszejko's two dogs.

[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

[13] In February 2017, director Holland said in an interview for The Guardian: "One journalist for the Polish news agency wrote that we had made a deeply anti-Christian film that promoted eco-terrorism.