Children of the Jiu Valley are familiar with roads. With theirs, but especially those of the adults. Roads through the tunnel, the mountains or the valley. All roads seem to be made for leaving as well as returning. The parents of these children, once the inhabitants of an old industrial area of Romania, take long roads to reach the West, wherever they may find work. They rarely return. They send money. Their children are like orphans. Many of them experience depression. Some take the fatal road to paradise or hell hoping to come back to a kinder vale.