In 19th century Romania, Costandin, a policeman of the time, and his son Ionita travel through the south of the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave. Costandin is a charismatic mixture between a funny Stalin and a somewhat more pragmatic Don Quixote. While Ionita seems to be quite the opposite: more like Dostoyevsky's ”Idiot”, finding himself in the unfortunate situation of having to settle his inner turmoil while riding, holding a sword or a gun. Their road speedily winds through exotic landscapes and meeting hundreds of secondary characters, rendering a surprise in every scene. All of this is pictured in beautiful black and white images with infectious humor and stirring cynicism, while keeping the authenticity of the age in an ingenious Western in a wild-wild East never yet captured on film. Aferim! ('Bravo!' in Romanian) won the Silver bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015.