Adina Cristescu

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he ...

An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.