Three years after the global pandemic had immobilized the world in fear and anxiety the director of Sieranevada and The Death of Mr Lăzărescu returns back in time to reflect on what happened through four loosely interconnected stories. Taken together, the effect is a despairing, somewhat conservative, but nontheless masterful portrait of modern Romania. One in which venality, anger, violence and amorality has taken over and people now feel empowered to tear one another – be it body or mind – apart.
