Director's statement:

White orphans
My ties to Jiu Valley are old and profound. The trips I made there began when the mines were still running, and Lucian Pintilie was making a movie. They continued with Ionel, a street child in Bucharest, the adoptive son of a miner who was beating him with a hauling cable. A third decisive visit, when I decided to make a movie there, was shortly after the funeral of a child who knew how to get his mother to come back home from Italy. By committing suicide. The Valley images contain these human dramas that should be shouted, but which I chose to whisper in a "white" language.