I viewed this at the 2011 Cleveland International Film Festival. Character driven drama about a young man (Pistereanu) in a desperate situation. With a slow deliberate pace we see that he is coping well with life in a detention center, but for ambiguous reasons his mother makes him lose his focus on good behavior and he starts acting out for special privileges. Strangely he creates a hostage situation with the girl student he has developed a crush upon. Is it an East European art film breaking the cliches of Hollywood fare? Or is it a puzzling tale with vague motivations and something lost in translation?