Where We Used to Sleep

Once upon a time, a thousand people lived in the village of Geamana, in the Apuseni Mountains, in Romania. In the 1970s, Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship installed a copper mine in the administrative district of Alba, which dumped toxic waste right in Geamana. Today only the spire of the church tower remains, rising above the waters of an artificial reservoir, infected by the toxic mud that submerges everything in its path. The houses have sunk and the inhabitants have fled. Valeria Prata is the only one left in this deserted village. Accompanied by her few animals, she fights to defend her home and to avoid being uprooted from her land and roots, while the incredible images of the devastation and the folk music reflect her nostalgia. Some citizens advise her to do what seems reasonable, and abandon her land now transformed into a dystopian thriller, but Valeria resists with dignity and courage.