Bucharest 2003-2004. A group of teenagers share their lives around the Brancoveanu subway station and the adjacent park. Many of them are orphans, unlike 16 years-old Rubi. Even if they are very fond of her, Rubi’s unemployed parents cannot afford to keep her at home. When the kids are not running errands for local shopkeepers, or begging, they kill time getting high on paint fumes. Their drug of choice, their ticket to a brief escape from hunger and an unforgiving world is Aurolac, a silver paint used in Romanian churches for the halos of the saints.

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