The Professional Parent follows Ingrid, a struggling single mother living in an economically deprived village in Eastern Slovakia. Desperate to provide for her young daughter and elderly mother, she accepts a job as a professional foster parent to a Roma girl. As prejudice within her own family collides with the responsibilities of care, Ingrid is forced to navigate impossible moral choices between survival, love, and dignity. Told with quiet realism and documentary-like intimacy, the film explores how poverty and systemic discrimination shape human relationships, revealing the hidden cost of compassion in a society where care has become both a profession and a necessity.