Edition V

Paul Najgebauer

BIO

A comedic improviser at the Klancyk Theatre, he co-founded the Warsaw Impro School and wrote sketches. He has performed improv on stages in the US, Australia, the Philippines, and Europe. He studied comedy writing in Chicago and New York, and prose at a course run by Czarne Publishing House.

SYNOPSIS

Damian is a 30-year-old prepper and a very brave son of his mother, with whom he still lives. He has an idealized image of his father, who supposedly died during the Iraq War, crushed by a food container. Damian receives an offer from Magda (32), the mayor of a small town, to lead a survival course in the woods. He doesn't know if he can cope without his mother, but Magda makes a great impression on him, so he agrees. In the wilderness, he'll have to mature quickly and metaphorically kill his own mother. In the finale, however, Damian will clash with his... father, who years earlier faked his own death and founded an ultra-masculine sect of forest preppers. The reward for defeating his parents will be Magda's sanity and heart.