We travel back to Poland around 1960, to a rural area. There is a rather remote monastery where 18-year-old novice Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) lives. Little is said behind the walls, neither while eating, nor during Anna's work on a statue of Christ. Have Anna take her vows in a few days. But before she returns to the city to visit her Aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza). We experience her with curious eyes in the tram and finally Anna faces her exact opposite: Wanda drinks, loves men and wants nothing to do with family. Wanda explains to Anna that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. But her parents were murdered. Although she would rather send Anna back to the monastery, Wanda decides to search for the traces of her relatives with her niece. Ida is a journey into the past: that of the German occupation, but also into the dark Stalin era.
