Your grandmother confesses she lost children. What do you do with that?
Olga's grandmother, a successful lawyer, reveals on her deathbed that the adoptions she handled in the wake of the Romanian Revolution are riddled with shortcomings and the fate of many children unknown. Olga sets out to dig up the past.
Acting
Popistașu's restrained unraveling—grief as investigative method.
Direction
Dual directors mirror Olga's fractured search for authoritative truth.
Writing
Dialogue that treats bureaucracy as its own character.
Director
Alexandru Baciu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Romania's 1989 Revolution ended Ceaușescu's regime, exposing horrific orphanages; this film interrogates the chaotic adoptions that followed, many plagued by corruption and missing documentation.
Maria Popistașu co-directs AND stars—a rare hyphenate move suggesting this project was personal enough to require dual control.
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