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According to legend, the water nymph Ondine placed a curse on her unfaithful lover that prevented him from sleeping. For him, sleep meant certain death. The so-called Ondine curse (congenital central hypoventilation syndrome) is a very rare disease in which the patient is at risk of sleep apnoea. The infant son of director Tomasz Śliwiński suffers from this incurable disease and therefore must sleep every night attached to a lung ventilator. Śliwiński records the hardships he and his wife endure when they first bring little Leo home from the hospital, the first sleepless nights, but also the moments of optimism and joy Leo brings. (One World)