January 2007, Romania joins European Union.

Five hundred years old village of Ruginesti lies isolated within the hills of the Romanian Carpathians. One hundred and eleven families spin a frozen in time lifestyle, the same way their great-great grandfathers did. Only the elderly and young children remained. Every single household has a relative working abroad.
Towards east, the EU family runs its frontier with The Republic of Moldova (an ex Soviet country) through the middle of another village.

Both Romania and USSR who had taken Moldova in 1945, sealed this frontier. For 45 years almost nobody crossed it. There are families who had relatives in the same village, but on the other side of the border and they never saw each other again.

In 1990, after the first free elections in The Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova, tens of thousands of Romanians and Moldavians gathered at the border village to celebrate what they thought will follow, the reunification. The scenes on the bridge were reminding of the fall of the Berlin wall. Since then Romanians looked west, Moldavians chose to stay under the east wing, even more since the Communists ruled the country. Romanians are now confident at the table of the European Union. Moldavians are left behind the fence.