Bibliothèque Pascal

Mona Paparu is a Romanian citizen of Hungarian nationality. By the Black Sea she meets a runaway convict, who takes her as hostage and locks them in a bungalow of a tourist camp. They spend the night together but the next day the police surround the camp and kill Viorel while he is trying to escape. The fruit of Mona and Viorel’s relationship is a baby girl whom Mona names Viorica… Mona is alone with her three-year-old daughter and she gives marionett performances to make a living. At a performance she runs into her father, Gigi Paparu, whom she has not seen in years. Paparu tells her that he is very ill and has to travel to Germany for an operation. He asks Mona to travel with him. The film is Mona Paparu’s account of her trips, her love affair and her calvary in Western Europe. —sff