Guided by their parents, three children enter the boarding school for visually impaired children. The strong character Zosia, the sensitive Oskar, and the independent yet shy Kinga. These children are too young to leave home, but they must go through a difficult separation from their parents in order to move on to a better life. Fledglings is a story about how we can endure hardships by relying on others in a situation where the world around us is being shattered. When fragile-looking fledglings are released from their mother birds, they realize that they must support each other based on friendship and empathy. Director Lidia Duda captures gestures and faces, such as the movements of small birds, in incredible detail at a child's eye level and low camera to get close to three children's inner, emotional and artistic expressions. The documentary's intimacy and ascetic black-and-white images are well suited to depicting the subtle movements of children. The moment these fledglings leave the boarding school, the audience learns that the heartbreaking situation they experienced at the beginning of the film made them stronger.​