Dragoş Olaru

An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around their ears.

Toni and Simina are two lonely souls on the road who meet by chance in a supermarket parking lot. They immediately like each other and decide to continue their journey together.

One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for- her father is certain she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome.

Two brothers who live in different countries after their parents' divorce reunite on the occasion of their annual trip to the mountains. Everyone's vacation and plans change radically when the children disappear on a clandestine expedition to a mountain refuge, causing panic...

Horia, a teenager from a Romanian village, is in love with a girl who lives on the other side of the country. After an argument with his father, he makes an impulsive move and leaves home on his father's old Mobra moped. His way is made difficult by a clever little girl named Stela, and the two are forced by circumstances to travel together and overcome a series of obstacles.

Young and without any experience, a guy gets struck earlier in life by hard times. On his way to maturity he's supposed to make a difficult choice. Who's going to win: the toaster or the bicycle?

Sixteen-year-old Adi struggles with persecution. The boy is taken for forensic examination, he has clear signs of being beaten, he doesn't say much. The police quickly determine that the attack may be related to his sexual orientation.