Kieslowski and co-screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz expressed an affection for the character of the young singer who contemplates surgery, and they lamented the fact that there was little for her to do in this story. When they began writing "The Double Life of Veronique", they remembered the plight of the singer in Dekalog - how her passion was limited by her sickness - and transferred this storyline over to the characters of Veronique and Weronika.