Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.
Acting
Mocanu's face does what dialogue cannot in a surveillance state.
Production
The plastic factory as purgatory — you can smell the chemicals.
Director
Nicu Gheorghe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1990, months after Ceaușescu's fall — the first Romanian film to explicitly depict illegal abortion under his regime.
Director Nicolae was a documentarian; the plastic factory scenes used actual workers, not actors.
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