Adi is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.

Investigating the bruising aftermath of a homophobic hate crime, Emanuel Parvu’s arresting drama magnifies the conflicting agendas of church, police, and state. Shot in widescreen, this unfaltering film never loses sight of its rural setting, where old orthodoxies stagnate among the river reeds.