You have to realize that a street child leads the life of a dog. He is beaten, spends whole days begging, but it doesn´t make him give up hope, so long as you let him have his station. That station may well be cold and anonymous - a home without a future, a barn without a roof, a pitiless fate - but he stays there, hangs around, makes do, and hopes. It is his niche. Yet one day his memory forces him to leave this makeshift nest to make his way in a world where he belongs - and then what... Gigi (17) and Monica (15) live out their love with their gang in Bucharest North Station. A newcomer is on his way. Monica is expecting a baby. Gigi wants to leave the nondescript streets. He tells us his dreams: 'To find a roof, start a family, build another family out of that family, and on like that... till the end.' Is this child going to be born? Where and how and what will he or she...? By creating another life, Gigi and Monica go beyond the street child´s place in the world, and bring us up against the Universal. Are sparse and harsh living conditions enough to fix people´s destiny in abject poverty?
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