Pioneers Palace

Set in Bucharest after the fall of Ceaușescu Pioneers Palace captures the chaotic essence of the time Based on the directors own experience the story follows a group of Romanian teenagers who driven by the unprecedented freedoms of a freemarket economy open a disco in their high school Surrounded by entrepreneurial opportunity and almost no limits the teens visit Bucharests firstever brothel and are exposed to the dark underbelly of an unregulated society when they are faced with potential exposure to AIDS