Zsófia Polacsek

The original film, titled The Death of Dracula (Drakula Halála) was producesd in 1921 as a Hungarian-Austrian-French co-production, one year before F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. Given its production date, it may be considered the first Dracula" film in the world. The original negative and copies of the film were destroyed during the Second World War. Although the original screenplay could not be located, a book of the same title was published by Lajos Pánczél after the film's release. A reproduction of the script was created based on the book, and then this "remake" of the original film shot using the reproduced script.

After a chance meeting, a boy and a girl travel through the wild Romanian landscape on a rickety motorbike.

Erika is running from her family, her past and herself. Her only friend is the old man she cleans for. The girl from the shop looks up to her. Her lover is a married man. Consequences of past choices and trauma are revealed as she searches for safety and love living day by day.

What begins as an ordinary family outing to the Transylvanian salt baths turns into a quiet reckoning: Evelin, confronted with her father’s absence and infidelity, becomes disillusioned with the false promises of adulthood.