
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.

as Adi

as Alberto

as Andrei

as Borcan

as Brigitte

as Bulgaras

as Manager

as Sami

as Vasi

as Policeman

as Adolescent

as Adolescent

as Adolescent

as Ali

as Le garçon du bar

as Le marchand

as L'enfant qui chante

as La femme du prêteur sur gages

as La femme aux machines à sous

as La femme au foyer

as Le lutiste (Ionut Cercel)

as Lucica

as Miruna

as Le vieux policier

as Propriétaire

as Chauffeur de taxi

as Camarade (Alberto)

as Mugurel Craioveanu

as Narcisa

as La danseuse

as Formateur

as Collègue

as Collègue

as Collègue

as Collègue

as Collègue

as Le jeune policier

as Sorin Sandu

as Zita