When high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends a film to her students, a parent’s complaint spirals her life into chaos.

The ’60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician,…

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s sent to a forced labor camp. After his…