It’s about childhood, the countryside, innocence, looks, expectations and melancholy. The work was produced in a small Hungarian minority village in Transylvania, and presents a series of portraits of young girls, halfway between documentary and poetry, in the form of a visual tale whose main theme is childhood and the fragility of this precious period.

These portraits are mixed with images of the traditional and natural world in which these young girls live, giving us a unique vision of a Romania that is marked and fragile, but also moving forward in the present, while living in the shadow of its history, like an adult taking her first steps out of childhood. The girls grow up, and each year their innocence gradually disappears, all in a game of hide-and-seek between candid gentleness and rurality, and between shadow and light.