The starting point for the project was the Warsaw "Inflancka" housing estate, located between Słomińskiego, Dzika, Stawki, and Inflancka streets. Although it was built in the 1970s, around 2005, its residents decided to change its character and isolate themselves from the world with a tight fence, in the style of a new type of apartment building. This is a unique phenomenon in Europe, where these old buildings separate themselves from newly constructed buildings (and not the other way around, as is the case with gentrification). Furthermore, such a vast area within the city center is separated, forcing people from outside the estate to cover vast distances or camp out near the entrance, hoping to illegally cross via a shorter route.

The main point of such attempts to cross is a specific narrowing, where the two gates of the estate are separated by only a dozen or so meters – I call it the "Inflancka Strait." The dance of gestures, exchanges of glances, and the full repertoire of emotions
accompanying this illegal crossing struck me as an interesting metaphor and a micro-laboratory for analyzing the phenomenon on a broader scale. The antagonistic infrastructure, supporting "us-them" thinking, can paradoxically act as a vaccine when we recognize the absurdity of this situation. A micro-dose of feeling
of being illegal can build understanding for those truly forced to travel. A small fraction of the threat of "otherness" can foster tolerance for otherness on a larger scale.