When high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends a film to her students, a parent’s complaint spirals her life into chaos.

The ’60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician,…

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s sent to a forced labor camp. After his…