Marius Damian

奥尔索利亚是特兰西瓦尼亚主要城市克卢日的一名法警。一天，她必须将一名无家可归的男子从地下室驱逐出去，这一行动带来了悲剧性的后果，使得奥尔索利亚必须尽力应对随之而来的道德危机。

　　灵感来自罗马尼亚作家马克斯·布雷赫的同名自传式小说。故事发生在1937年，20岁出头的男子伊曼纽因患脊椎骨结核而终日待在黑海沿岸的一家疗养院里，全身打上石膏，动弹不得。在这期间，他与另一位病人索兰芝相爱，这里的病人们虽然身体在慢慢枯萎，但思想不肯屈服，他们谈论文学、哲学与历史，努力活出生命的意义。1939年，这本杰作在罗马尼亚出版，马克斯·布雷赫在经历了10年的痛苦折磨后离开人世，去世时年仅29岁。

　　The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.