Synopsis
Romanian-born director Andrei Schwartz met Gavril Hrib, who had been sentenced to life for murdering a public prosecutor, in 2002, when he was shooting his film Jailbirds at the high security prison of Rahova near Bucharest. After more than 20 years Hrib is finally released on probation, into a country he knows only from the Ceau?escuera. Hrib, a lanky guy with a kippa under his baseball cap, knows how to win hearts with his sly wit and gawky helplessness. He worked hard to earn respect inside; outside he comes up against nothing but rejection and closed doors. The film shows a very deep and realistic portrait of a person trying to reconstruct his life in a society that resides in a deep crisis.