The only way to save the one you love, is to die.

A young American falls hard for a Romanian cellist whose father has recently died -- and whose violent past could bring about his own demise.
Charlie Countryman keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Shared director or cast.