Character Relationship Map: This is Hel

Characters

• Jack (played by Philip Lenkowsky) — protagonist

  An American staying in a trailer, Jack becomes involved with Esma and is questioned by Kail about his whereabouts. He admits visiting the gas station but denies seeing Mila. He also describes an unfin...

• Kail (played by Marcin Kowalczyk) — supporting

  Kail investigates events around his camp and tests people with a lie detector, including Kasia and Jack. He continues pursuing the case even as the Policeman dismisses it as a jealous quarrel. His ima...

• Mila (played by Malgorzata Krukowska) — supporting

  Mila searches for answers and confronts Jack, asking whether he is the murderer and pressing him to tell the truth. Kail's imagined ending places her in danger after a lie-detector test, and later she...

• Esma (played by Katarzyna Paskuda) — supporting

  Esma is a pole dancer who works at a local bar and becomes involved with Jack, an American staying in a trailer. Her disappearance becomes part of the unfolding mystery; Jack later tells Kail there is...

• Kasia (played by Marika Tomczyk) — supporting

  Kasia is a journalism student vacationing with Natalia and her boyfriend, Piotrek. Kail brings her to his camp and tests her with a lie detector, asking about jealousy and her relationship. When the m...

• Policeman (played by Marek Sadowski) — supporting
• Natalia (played by Agnieszka Wąsikowska) — supporting

  Natalia is vacationing with Kasia and Kasia's boyfriend, Piotrek. The summary places her among the people connected to the camp's circle, which the Policeman suspects, but provides no specific actions...

• Piotrek (played by Philippe Tłokiński) — supporting

  Piotrek is identified as Kasia's boyfriend and is vacationing with her and Natalia. Kasia answers Kail's lie-detector questions about jealousy and her relationship before the machine declares her a li...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Kail → Policeman (Professional Parallel Investigators) — Both men pursue explanations for the reported violence, but the plot gives them separate investigative approaches.

  The Policeman investigates the report about a woman whose tongue was cut out, while Kail continues investigating the people around the camp.

• Natalia → Piotrek (Romantic Boyfriend And Girlfriend) — Their relationship forms part of the vacation group surrounding Kasia and the investigation.

  The plot identifies Piotrek as Natalia's boyfriend while they vacation together with Kasia.

• Jack → Esma (Romantic Involvement) — Their involvement links Jack to Esma's disappearance and to the disturbing discovery he reports from his trailer.

  Jack becomes involved with Esma, a pole dancer who works at a local bar. After Esma disappears, Jack reports that there is a body in his trailer.

• Kail → Kasia (Power Examiner And Subject) — Kail subjects Kasia to an invasive truth test, and the result intensifies suspicion around her.

  Kail brings Kasia to his camp and tests her with a lie detector. The machine declares her a liar after she answers questions about jealousy and her re...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Kasia → Natalia (Social Vacation Companions) — Natalia is part of Kasia's immediate vacation group before the lie-detector encounter and subsequent investigation.

  Kasia is described as a journalism student vacationing with Natalia and Piotrek.

• Kail → Mila (Conflict Threatening Examiner) — Kail places Mila inside a disturbing imagined narrative in which truth-testing leads directly to her mutilation and death.

  Kail imagines that Mila will undergo a test, lie, and be killed with her tongue cut out, presenting the scenario as the ending of Jack's story.

• Jack → Mila (Conflict Confronted Suspect) — Mila directly challenges Jack over the possibility that he committed the murder, turning their encounter into a tense interrogation.

  Mila searches for answers and confronts Jack, asking whether he is the murderer. Jack denies it, and Mila presses him to tell the truth.

• Policeman → Jack (Conflict Suspicious Investigator) — The Policeman places Jack under suspicion while attempting to connect him with the reported attack.

  The Policeman grows suspicious of Jack and suggests that Jack and the women may have been involved in an attack, although he has no clear proof.

• Kail → Jack (Conflict Interrogator And Suspect) — Kail pressures Jack for information and treats his answers as part of a wider investigation into disappearance and violence.

  Kail tests Jack with a lie detector. Jack admits being at the gas station but denies seeing Mila, while Kail continues investigating.

Story Analysis

A fragmented investigation turns questions about truth, guilt, and storytelling into an unresolved threat against Mila.

Plot Progression

1. The Lie Detector Camp — Kail brings a young woman to his camp and tests Kasia about jealousy and relationships. Her angry departure is followed by a report of a mutilated woman.
2. Suspicion Around Jack — Jack becomes involved with Esma and is questioned by Kail about Mila and the gas station. The Policeman grows suspicious while Jack describes an unfinished screenplay that resembles his own decline.
3. The Vanishing Body — Esma disappears, and Jack reports a body in his trailer. The body is gone when checked, making the investigation more unstable and inexplicable.
4. A Story About Murder — Mila confronts Jack and demands the truth about the suspected murder. Kail then describes a fictional ending in which Mila lies during a test and is killed.
5. The Unfinished Return — Violence leaves Mila injured beside a threatening man who treats her like his daughter. His diminishing-duckling song ends with Mila's fate unresolved.