Edith Alibec

Young Romanian Adrian works as a hustler in Zurich's underground in order to get his sister Ioana out of Romania and to Zurich, where they can both have a better future.

After a long period of not talking to each other, Ana, freshly out of med-school, reunites with her mother by the seaside, to rekindle the relationship. In the pursuit of retrieving some of her very early memories, she begins to understand and fill in some gaps from her upbringing. The trip along this memory lane will unfold things left unsaid for too long. A story about family ties, love and miscommunication.

Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.

Women and men in the middle of the night, without their own clothes, without personal papers and money, without their car keys and mobile phones. In a deserted city the only solution would be, regardless of how far home is, to walk alone all the way there.