Credits: screenplay: Cristian Mungiu; director of photography: Oleg Mutu; editor: Mircea Olteanu; sound: Mircea Olteanu, Dana Bunescu, Marius Leftărache; producer: Cristian Mungiu; production: Mobra Films;

Country: Romania

Year: 2012

Running time: 150

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

Voichita looks for Alina in the railway station of this small hilly Romanian town. The girls grew up together in an orphanage and they were family for each other since first grade. At 19, Alina was taken into custody by a social family and later decided to go and work in Germany. Voichita found refuge in an Orthodox Monastery and become a nun. She found there not only God but the family she never had. Alina feels estranged and sick lately and strives to include Voichita back in her life. Voichita asks permission to leave for a while to comfort her disturbed friend but the Priest's answer is firm: once you take the path of Christ there are no second guesses. Voichita is not prepared to abandon her newly found peace while Alina is baffled by her decision: what on earth happened with the girl she knew? She starts fighting with all her force to get Voichita back but God is the most difficult lover one can be jealous of - and soon the Monastery people start suspecting there is something evil with this force that animates Alina.