![]() ![]() In reality, Alina can’t afford the apple strudels. Her aunt is also close at hand for a word of matronly advice when Alina isn’t busy playing hostess at home.īehind this façade, however, Alina is dogged by a manipulative, widowed mother who considers her marriage and subsequent move into her own home number one on an endlessly expanding list of selfish betrayals. On the outside, she is a teacher working close enough to the home she grew up in to share an impromptu cup of coffee with her mother, and every Sunday, she slips out into the morning chill to buy her husband Liviu’s favorite pastries as a special breakfast treat. ![]() Or, at least, in the communist regime of 1970s Romania, it’s very important that it appears that way. ![]()
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