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
