Switching of Roles

ROLES

𝐀π₯𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐚 & 𝐀π₯π₯𝐚 have been in Romania for over a year, they came to Romania together, they have been friends for seven years and are kindred spirits, sisters. Their husbands have stayed behind in Ukraine and fight together, the women fight here, for the future, for the future of the three children they are now raising together. They are a team and a puzzle.

 

𝐀π₯𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐚: We created this story because we are a big Romanian family. I am gentle and Alla is stern. She is my Romanian husband, I am the wife, together we have three children and a car. It’s a funny story we tell each other, of course we are not husband and wife, we are best friends, but generally Alla acts like a father with the children and I play the mother.

 

𝐀π₯π₯𝐚: At first it was challenging because they, the children, didn’t know what was going on. I asked for their help. I told them, “Please help me clean our apartment, help me cook. Give me a hug.”

Video byΒ  Bogdan Dinca

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