Abel in the Forest

The 1920s in Transylvania. Ábel, having turned fourteen years of age, starts working as a timber-guard in the woods of the bank in Hargita in order to make som money to support his family. His father accompanies him to the top of the mountain, giving him a goat and a dog. Ábel encounters shoppers, robbers, monks, gendarmeries and gets acquainted with hunger, cold, sickness and death. His eyes are opened to how life world vork. While he is away, his mother dies. His contract expires, and he makes up his mind to go and try luck out in the wide country. (official distributor synopsis)