Unser fremdes Kind (1998)

After their son Tomek is admitted to hospital following a bicycle accident, his parents, Anna and Paweł, learn that he is not their biological son. As they search for his biological parents, an archivist gives them the address of the Schneider family, who live in Dresden. Anna immediately travels there and tries to make contact with the German family. The two mothers also get in touch outside the son’s school. The Schneiders, for their part, learn that they are not Oskar’s biological parents and that Tomek is actually their biological son. Since Anna has invited them to Poland, the three of them visit the Kowalskis at their parents’ holiday house by a lake. Although the meeting is initially warm and the two boys become friends, mutual suspicion persists, and both the Kowalskis and the Schneiders show an interest in both children. When the children secretly row out onto the lake at night and a storm begins to gather, the two sets of parents first come into conflict, but then set out together to search for the boys. This exceptional situation also eases relations between them. Anna and Maria eventually find the children in a shelter on the shore. It becomes clear that Tomek runs to Anna, while Oskar runs to Maria, settling where they belong.