Variola Vera(2025)

Variola Vera is a Polish historical drama series set in Wrocław during May 1963. When intelligence officer Łucja Winter returns from a covert mission in India, a smallpox epidemic suddenly erupts in the city. Authorities seal off Wrocław, transforming it into a quarantine zone as residents and officials wage a desperate battle against the deadly virus. The series weaves together Cold War espionage and medical crisis, exploring how a community confronts an invisible threat while secrets from Winter's mission threaten to unravel. Grounded in real events, Variola Vera examines the human cost of disease, fear, and the collision between individual survival and collective responsibility during one of Europe's last major smallpox outbreaks.