PARCHED

Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within the temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future: he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the lives of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-year sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the three of them are smiling and happy…