Acting
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.
Waiting for the rain that never comes, two peasants, father and son, plough the dry land with a horse-drawn plough. The father decides to dig a well, for which he will pay a heavy price.
When a young girl is found dead in a Transylvanian village, a police investigator and his assistant arrive to reconstruct the mysterious events leading to her demise. Through a series of interviews and filmed testimonies, they uncover a complex web of rural social tensions and moral failures rather than a simple accident.
It is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
