An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Alexandru Virgil Platon
as Codine
Răzvan Petrescu
as Adrian Zografi
Françoise Brion
as Irène
Nelly Borgeaud
as Zoița Zograffi
Germaine Kerjean
as Anastasia
Maurice Sarfati
as Alexis
Eliza Petrăchescu
as Catrina
Graziela Albini
as Anghelina
Eugenia Bosânceanu
as Mara
Dorin Dron
as Ștefan
Victor Moldovan
as Anton
Mihai Mereuţă
as
