Jiu River Valley People

Oameni din Valea Jiului

In Jiu River County transition to market economy has meant drastic pauperization through mass unemployment… therefore any individual life brought under the stage lights bespeaks of a whole community’s
collective destiny. Cristian, Nelu, Denver and others, in our Jiu River Valley People, frenziedly confront implacable risks for coal to sell and survive on. Their frail mole galleries can at any time entomb the diggers and their too high-pitched hope. On the opposite lake bank, where they used to dig and still drill those tiny holes, the villagers lives are made all the harder with the unusually frosty winter. Nelu, who also has animals to worry about besides his so-called mining, seriously considers quitting quoted hazard. Precarious state of the galleries he digs, imminent caving-in and trespassing of the law, as many reasons for Cristi to give up, for the time being. While Denver and the other chance mates of his live on their existential adventure, unrelenting.