Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped
by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious
neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music,
the 'pop music' of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out
of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it's just
another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and
keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi
meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi
to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in
which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while
Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual
affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into
something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and
belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped
by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious
neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music,
the 'pop music' of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out
of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it's just
another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and
keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi
meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi
to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in
which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while
Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual
affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into
something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and
belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand. 
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