When carefree and rather complacent student Lara learns that her father, mother and little sister have died in a car accident in Romania, she sets off with three friends to find out more on the ground. However, their search not only reveals the truth about her father, who worked as a scientist for a humanitarian aid organization, but uncovering the deadly secret could also cost Lara her life. As it turns out, German rotten meat is being fed to Romanian street children...
Practical Effects
Grimy Romanian locations that reek of authenticity and dread.
Direction
Fetscher's unflinching eye refuses to let you look away.
Director
Andy Fetscher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Romania's EU accession, the film weaponizes Western fears about Eastern European 'backwardness' while indicting German neocolonialism. It's exploitation cinema with actual political teeth.
The 'rotten meat' premise was loosely inspired by real 1990s scandals involving EU food dumping in Eastern Europe. Fetscher shot illegally in several Bucharest locations after permits were denied.
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