Maior L. Marinescu
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.
Однажды возвращаясь домой простой тракторист Виорел случайно встречает известного политика Мокану. Автомобиль политика сломался и радушный тракторист приглашает политика к себе домой. Мокану быстро понимает, что гостеприимством своих новых знакомых можно воспользоваться в политических целях. Он заключает с Виорелом договор: во время предвыборной кампании Мокану будет жить в их доме, а тракторист в обмен на новый трактор будет изображать его старого друга.
Mircea - Border Police
NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN…
