class="">Bonfire, after a novel by György Dragomán

The girl suspiciously follows the stranger to a new city. At school, she is marginalized by the others, as her grandmother is thought to be a denunciator and a mad woman, who reads coffee or blood. Emma faces all the trouble courageously, while her mistrust of the old woman turns into a close relationship – as the grandmother starts telling her stories. Her own story, family secrets and secrets of a society where many acts of violence were never investigated. It soon becomes obvious that politics, society, and the story of Emma’s family are tightly connected. Through his well-known novel, the author György Dragomán, a Hungarian born in Transylvania who later emigrated to Hungary, paints a picture of Romania at the beginning of the 90s, going through a transition period, and governed by fear. The viewpoint of the young girl, whose growing-up process is announced by societal transformations, allows for an objective X-ray of political events.