Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Ivana Mladenović
Director
Ivana Mladenović
Writer
Adrian Schiop
Writer
Luchian Ciobanu
Director of Photography
Adrian Schiop
Adi
Vasile Pavel
Alberto
Ștefan Iancu
Andrei
Nicolae Marin
Borcan
Kanako Hashimoto
Brigitte
Bulgaras
Bulgaras
Dan Bursuc
Manager
Constantin Titi Nicolae
Sami
Cezar Grumăzescu
Vasi
Sorin Cociș
Policeman
Adrian Cozac
Adolescent
Gabriel Panait
Adolescent
