Flavia, a sharp and self-reliant teenager, lives alone in a small Romanian town after her parents left to work in Italy. Forced into adulthood at fourteen, she has learned to survive on sarcasm and emotional distance. When she learns that her parents are heading for divorce, the fragile balance she has built begins to crack.
Flavia finds comfort in her friendship with Luca, who shares a similar family situation, and often helps care for his younger sister, Tina. One evening, Tina brings home two runaway siblings, Lia (12) and Dudu (9). Luca agrees to shelter them, and the house briefly turns into a warm, improvised family. For the first time, Flavia allows herself to embrace her nurturing side, finding purpose and belonging in caring for the children.
The fragile harmony doesn’t last long. Lia instinctively pushes away Flavia’s surrogate family project and rejects her attempts to get close to her and her brother. When Lia lets them know that she and her brother plan to move on and flee the town, Flavia impulsively wants to stop them. But when the children finally leave on their own, her surrogate family collapses, confronting Flavia with the painful limits of her longing and the unresolved absence that defines her generation.
