12 minutes that'll wreck your entire day — in the best way.
A young immigrant’s life comes crashing down when he gets a distressing phone call from his home country.
Acting
Adrian Ban's face does ALL the work. Devastating restraint.
Direction
Pereș-Bota lets silence scream. No manipulation, just truth.
Director
Luca Pereș-Bota
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Romanian-Belgian co-productions examining EU labor migration, continuing the social realist tradition of the Romanian New Wave.
The restaurant setting isn't just backdrop — it's the invisible machinery of immigrant invisibility, where Bogdan serves others while his own life collapses off-clock.
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