The Medium

Marianne grew up in Poland during the post-Communism era. She’s a medium and uses her powers to help lost souls cross over to the other side. One day shortly after the man who raised her passed away, she received a call from a man who knew about her powers and told her to meet him and he would explain the origin of them. He also knew about a recurring dream she has where a man shoots a girl at a lake. He tells her to meet him at Niwa Workers’ Resort, an abandoned vacation resort out in the Polish wilderness.

Niwa Workers’ Resort

Upon arriving at Niwa, Marianne can feel the strong connection the place has to the spirit world. Years earlier there was a massacre that occurred on site that caused it to be shut down, so it makes sense there was such a strong connection. She meets a deceased girl who goes by Sadness who warns her about a hostile spirit called the Maw.

With the help of her powers, she discovers that the the resort’s manager and his daughter Lilianne were at the center of the massacre years prior. She was able to see Thomas’ life as if it were her own and she learned that he too was a medium too. His older friend Richard was molesting his daughter, Liliane, which caused enraged Thomas and he attacked his mind and left Richard in a vegetative state.

Richard’s new state drew the attention of Nazis and Soviets who deduced that Thomas had powers and wanted to use him as a weapon. When Thomas refused, they forced him to watch as they burned down his house with his wife and children inside. Marianne realizes that Thomas is really her father and Sadness must really be Lilianne, her sister.

Marianne discovers a bunker beneath the ruins of their former home, where she finds Thomas’ spirit, but not his body and the spirit does not know where Thomas really is. He explains that Lilianne had powers too, but after what Richard did to her, she manifested the Maw from her grief. Marianne leaves the bunker and heads to the lake that she recognizes from her dreams.

A Medium is Needed

There she encounters Lilianne who is alive. Lillianne explains that the dream isn’t a memory, it’s of the future. She hands Marianne a gun and tells her to shoot her, as the Maw can’t be stopped while she’s alive. The Maw needs a powerful medium in order to leave Niwa though, which is why Marianne was there, it needed her. She threatens the Maw that she will kill herself, but it forced her to fire the gun. It’s left unclear who she shot.

During a post credits scene, a man in the spirit world picks up Thomas’ pocket watch, but we never see his face.