In 1987, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Romania, then a socialist country, still had a clear law prohibiting abortion. Gabita, a college student abandoned by her boyfriend in Bucharest, became pregnant unexpectedly, and her roommate and friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) decided to help her have a secret abortion. Through the introduction of friends, the two contacted the doctor who was willing to perform the operation and estimated that they had raised a large amount of money. No, the money they raised can't meet the doctor's requirements. At the location of the operation, in a cheap hotel, the doctor offered to exchange Otilia's body. In order to completely help Gabita,Otilia agree to the doctor's request, after that, she began to think about her relationship with her boyfriend and put forward the hypothesis: what will her boyfriend's attitude be if she gets pregnant unexpectedly? The title of the film is "April, three weeks and two days", which is the total length of time from pregnancy to abortion in Gabita.
7.9
