Doru Bem

Vlad, a museographer's son, meets a living Alexandru Cuza in a gallery of Romanian heroes. Together they visit historical figures like Saint Andrew and Vlad the Impaler at pivotal moments in their lives.

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

On Christmas Eve, Sebi finds a text message on his father's phone and reads it out loud.