From acclaimed filmmaker Cristi Puiu comes this quadriptych of tales about four different people enduring life in the eponymous year, one of the most fraught in human history. These seemingly unrelated short films perfectly capture life during the pandemic.

A therapy session gets uncomfortable; a treat gone wrong for a birthday party; an ambulance driver and his affair with a gangster’s girlfriend; and a detective who thinks he’s found an answer–all of these seemingly disparate stories come together as a partial indictment of bureaucracy and a celebration of life, as chaotic as it might be, in trying times.