Waiting for August

Georgiana, the eldest daughter of her family, is turning fifteen this winter. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau. Their mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. Georgiana is catapulted into the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she moves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her mom, plus the conflicting values of religion on the one hand, and commercial TV channels on the other, are her only guidelines.