Contemporary civilization named her "the witch".

She is a young single mom and she is ready to anything to protect her son from human self-destruction.

She lives in a post-apocalyptic future, in which our domestic appliances lie lifeless as “sleeping boxes”. It is not planned obsolescence, but the disappearance of the power fuelling their life – electricity.

While humans try to discover what such monoliths mean and divide into those who admire the "Silicone Age" – i.e. our society – and those who blame it for its own disaster, she reinvents the function of the boxes and makes her son believe they were used in absurd ways. Light-bulbs blink when someone has a brilliant idea, gas masks protect from onions, shopping carts contain hunted animals, and so on.

Their (ab)normal life is interrupted when they meet a researcher from the civilization, who seduces the kid with his paternal manners and tells him fantastic stories about a place where the secret of those boxes is hidden. The three of them set off to search for this location.

Radioactivity lasts longer than human languages, and when the three of them find the area – a Pandora's vase containing our nuclear wastes – she is the only one who perceives the threat...

Incommunicability not only concerns human languages, but also human relations, especially in a "troubled" one-parent family in the future.

If humanity had a second chance, would they still take the same path?
A wild, ten years old kid will give his own answer to such a question.

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