Ana Parvu

Two strangers find a romantic connection and talk about their memories together over a night. Their conversation plays back in real-time, intermittently threaded over memory sequences; sensory patches that dip into their personal histories and childhood lives. We listen to the varying relationships they have with these past experiences, and how this continues to shape their outlook. Beyond this, we observe the simplicity and wholeness that is possible between two individuals in a fleeting moment; paths that have aligned and will leave a lasting imprint.

A young composer and double bass virtuoso, who returns to Romania after studying in Vienna, is arrested by the political police soon after getting engaged and taken to the Pitesti prison, where a brainwashing and torture-based experiment is under way. The horrible communist experiment, copied after the Soviet model, is headed by the much-feared Ciumau.