Radu Botar

1950, prison de Sighet, Roumanie. C’est là, derrière les barreaux, qu’un groupe d’évêques gréco-catholiques est emprisonné par les autorités communistes, dans le but de les amener à renier toute forme d’allégeance au Vatican, perçu comme une influence étrangère. Un homme s’élève parmi eux qui devient progressivement un guide pour chaque prêtre : l’évêque Iuliu Hossu.

Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter's journalistic investigation into alleged American "flying prisons" in Romania. Through a combination of circumstances, following a mysterious File 631, Dinu (Iosif Paștina) discovers a leak from a NATO base in Romania. The news event stirs, provokes, tempts various media, top politicians, services, both internal and external, causing both hilarious and absurd dramas in a black comedy. The journalistic endeavour of the "newly" turned investigative reporter is a tough, not easy, test to preserve his professional dignity, but also his character, noting the duplicity, the moral volatility, the lack of measure of a world that relentlessly continues its course.