Milana, Sephora and Mario are between seventeen and twenty-five years old. They grew up in modest, stigmatised rural Manouche families. Unlike their parents, they have degrees and work as employees. They have dreams to fulfil. Mario earns his living as a hairdresser, but his passion is the circus. Milana, a high school student, aspires to be a flight attendant, even though she has never travelled. Sephora has been working since she was a teenager and wants to lead the life of an emancipated woman, even though she became a mother at a very young age. Distancing themselves from the marginalised life of their travelling elders, all three are trying to build a new identity, half Manouche, half Gadje, in order to find a path to emancipation and self-affirmation.
As both filmmaker and confidant, I share their existential questions, the ups and downs of everyday life, and the gypsy world into which they draw me.
