Gheorghe Blondă is the analog film laboratory technician from the National Film University of Bucharest Under the pretext of modernizing the university he is to be replaced and have his lifelong career end With the filming taking place at the same time as the anticorruption protests in 2017 Romania the film brings to light the ways in which the university a public institution mirrors the autorities that rule the country Despite the leading board of the university claiming that its a natural technological transition Gheorghes struggle to keep his job becomes a matter of life or death