Fentanyl, up to fifty times stronger than heroin, is spreading through small-town Poland, and this DW report follows the people caught in it. Michal, who asks to stay anonymous because of the stigma, travels every two weeks to a psychiatric hospital in Święciec for methadone after years of injecting the gel scraped from fentanyl pain patches. In Żuromin, once known as the country's unofficial fentanyl capital, Jadwiga Karpinska describes losing her son Pawel to an overdose, and the film notes the local dealer's arrest that only shrank, rather than ended, the supply. Corrupt pharmacists who funneled patches to dealers get mentioned as a source authorities have since shut down. An elementary school teacher, Adam Ejnik, talks about trying to warn students off the drug before they ever try it, while Artur, in recovery in Łódź with his girlfriend Agnieszka's support, is finishing a psychology degree so he can counsel other addicts. The film moves between clinics, homes, and a grieving mother's kitchen table to show what the drug is doing to one country's small towns.