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Despite growing debts and an entangled personal life, Florin Iespas — a police detective in a small northern Romanian city — is determined to solve a case no one seems to care about. Ordered to put down the file, Florin continues his off-the-record investigations, soon turning up a strong lead for two hotel fires that resulted in several deaths. The suspect is a security guard of Roma descent, but he denies everything. Faced with the refusal of the police chief to support his inquiry, the mistrust of his colleagues, and his own inner demons, Florin is forced to take extraordinary measures. Under the appearance of a sharp, tightly woven detective movie, the film is a story that explores pervasive issues in the law enforcement system: power, abuse, sexism, masculinity and prejudice.

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