In the 50's, the Russians discovered a rich uranium deposit in Apuseni Mountains. Shortly thereafter they developed a small city nearby and proceeded with the masive exploitation of the ore. The main objective: support of the Soviet military nuclear program. Almost two thousand Romanian miners were workind day and night, around the clock, in three shifts. There was no concern fort the labor or environmental protection. Most of the mine's employees didn't even know they were extracting uranium, but quartz.

In 2008, in Baita Plai there are still 20 families living. A small and poor community in a place that now seems devastated by an atomic bombing. Even though in 1998 the Avram Iancu mine was officially decommissioned and the entire area entered an environmental program, as an irony of the faith, the uranium comes back home, hidden in the darkness of the night, as radioactive waiste. By a Government decision from 2001, galleries of the former uranium mine from Baita-Plai were transformed into the National Radioactive Waste Storage.

Documentary

Length: 52'

Written and directed by: Adina Popescu, Iulian Ghervas