Maria

A young mother of seven, Maria survives, as best as she can, in the insalubrious basement of a decrepit apartment block. Her husband, who has just lost his job, squanders the family's meagre resources at the bar. When he flees the family home, she sees no other solution than prostitution to provide for herself and her children. Caught in the act in a motorway lay-by, she agrees to sell her story to a local TV channel, which results in the offer of a lifeline. Alarmed, the town mayor decides to offer her a decent flat and a job, but the driver who is supposed to take her to her new life can only see in her the prostitute she has been forced to become. This leads to unforeseen consequences... The Romania depicted by Netzer is a society of doubt, disillusioned, vegetating, caught between the blackness of the abolished totalitarian regime and the dazzling fantasies of the liberalism to come. A twilight world.