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 is a Hungarian immigrant and middle-class bureaucrat in the Romanian city of Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.