Synopsis

A doctor in Chișinău saves lives by day and performs stand-up comedy by night—because jokes pay better than medicine. Meanwhile, the film’s director ends up hospitalized with a serious illness in the same hospital where his father died after a misdiagnosis. Confronted with pain, fear, and broken memories, he starts asking hard questions about Moldova’s collapsing healthcare system and what it means to stay in a country that fails its healers.

Biography

Max T. Ciorbă is a Moldovan documentary filmmaker. He has directed several creative documentaries in Moldova and Romania, focusing on themes of identity, memory, and sound. He currently teaches documentary film directing at the Academy of Arts in Chișinău and is a PhD candidate in film
studies.