Basia and Marek have come to Sweden from Poland. Their marriage is in trouble and their daughter Ula is unhappy in the new country. A mistaken call to an emergency hotline for children triggers an inexorable bureaucratic process. Ula is removed from her family and turned over to foster parents. The desperate parents begin a dramatic battle to get their child back. Director Dariusz Gajewski eschews moralizing. All the characters behave in a believable manner, which only intensifies the sense of hopelessness – the desperate parents, the foster family, which is dealing with its own tragedy, and even the civil servants with their slavish adherence to the rules. “Strange Heaven” is a portrait of a family in crisis, and shows how a well-meaning system can have a brutal effect on human lives.