The movie describes the weird, unspoken, outrageously misbehaved love of an old gypsy man for the newborn girl of his teenage daughter. Because love is when you would do anything for somebody. Pardica - stunningly acted on instinct by Sorin Mihai - drives long hours to face his estranged older daughter and her aggressive husband. Pardica drags Giuberina to the hospital to sign papers that make no sense to him. Along the way he curses and pushes and shovels everybody and everything out of love for a minuscule body of flesh and blood, a long line of his flesh and his blood. What is written in the meaningless documents - meaningless to the Pardicas of the world - pales in comparison with what remains unwritten: his love for "my beauty."
Rarely a short impacts the audience with such power. Alina Serban brings determination, sensibility and painful quietness to her character, Giuberina. In a perfectly orchestrated contrast, Claudia Silisteanu delivers an apparently cold Doctor caught between compassion and the rule of law. But as some say, there are no rules in love and war and the excellent screenplay - by the same Claudia Silisteanu - makes us take an unexpected side. Beautiful cinematography and careful editing add to this love story that can be located anywhere in the world, even right there, in "that neighborhood" of your city.
