Jacob, a Transylvanian miner trying to eke out a living, is wrongly accused of stealing gold from the mine where he works. As punishment, he is transferred to a more distant site. At Christmas, in an attempt to make it home more quickly, Jacob secretly climbs into the mine’s cable car. But when the power shuts down for the holidays, he finds himself stuck, suspended 200 meters above the abyss. It’s in this extremely confined space that Jacob learns what it means to take risks and to fight to the last breath–and you will be breathless, too, watching this undisputedly brilliant film by a Romanian master, a major influence on New Romanian Cinema. A former NYFF selection, now in a newly remastered DCP!