Battalion Records

A group of young artists hijack Romania’s oldest music studio to stage a cultural revolution: masked and armed, they take the staff hostage to film a musical manifesto against Romania’s cultural decay. Leading them is Ana, a defiant 31-year-old, with a grudge against the system but also against her estranged father, a washed-up rockstar, and her controlling mother, the current Minister of Culture. As police, journalists, and on lookers gather outside, the siege spirals into a televised circus. Ana’s forceful demonstration awakens “The Wave”, a mythical force that can bend reality through sound and memory, rooted in Cold War conspiracies and buried folklore. Under its influence, Ana rises as the ultimate anti-system icon, confronting her parents and the system that broke her, only to become what she set out to destroy.