Mâine Mă Duc - Tomorrow I Leave

Mâine Mă Duc - Tomorrow I Leave portrays the life of a woman who always has to leave someone behind. Maria is a 24 hour caregiver. Once every 4 weeks, Maria leaves behind her Romanian village and embarks on a journey of over 1000 kilometres in order to care for elderly people in Austria.

In the meantime, her own aging parents are left to their own device. Her husband Daniel also looks back on many years of hard labour abroad. He now takes charge of the household. Their two sons, however, envisage a completely different future. After 4 weeks Maria...

What are you willing to accept in order to have a good life? Maria works as a 24-hour caregiver in Vienna. She sees her family in Ibănesti, a village in Romania, only every other month. Her two sons are growing up in part without her and her parents are actually in need of help. Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel calmly observe the reality of life as a migrant worker. The filmmakers travel with Maria in her car to and from Austria, and observe her as she cares for a woman in Vienna and then spends everyday life in...