In the dark room2005

"A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. And, in the astonishing story 'In the Neighbourhood', the inhabitants of a crumbling tower block go about their business, unforgettably."--BOOK JACKET.