In his latest bold satire, Romanian auteur Radu Jude takes up the spiritual crisis of educated urbanites—notching down (slightly) the absurdity, while complicating his interrogation of globalized modern life.
Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict an indigent man (Gabriel Spahiu) from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.