Artist Mariola Wawrzusiak roams post-industrial areas with her faithful dog in search of scrap metal, which she uses in her artwork. During the welding process she creates the sculptures of endangered animals, androids and children affected by war. Her critique of the ravages of civilization drives her obsessive need to create in spite of her painful hand condition. When the air quality in the city exceeds acceptable limits she, together with her family, escapes to an uninhabited island to wait out the difficult time in close contact with nature. Mariola Wawrzusiak is the professor of the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Krakow and a renowned Polish sculptress.