Seven-year-old Marko, a Romani child raised since birth by a foster family in a village near Smederevo, faces forced separation—an institutional process that strips him of the only home he has ever known. For the system, it is called “adoption.” For Marko, it is kidnapping.

Marta, an experienced translator and mediator for international adoptions at the Ministry of Social Affairs, is accustomed to translating emotions into administrative language. For years, she has carried out the same ritual: children break, adults explain, documents do the rest. Neutrality is her professional armor.

The arrival of a Spanish couple, Guillermo and Luz Montalban, represents their “last chance” at parenthood, but for Marko it marks the beginning of complete destabilization. An unprepared foster family, absent social workers, and a mechanical system leave the child alone to face the inevitable. Marko’s resistance escalates into rage, aggression, and attempts to escape.

In the silence of institutional violence, Marta becomes the only figure of understanding. Between her and Marko, a subtle and dangerous closeness develops—not as a method, but as a human bond. That very bond begins to threaten the entire process.

With the help of Simon, a brilliant but emotionally broken young man with Asperger’s syndrome, Marta and Marko experience brief moments of freedom, outside the system and its rules. But the illusion of escape collapses when Simon commits suicide, and Marta realizes that Marko’s adoption has been legally finalized—irreversible.

At the moment of moral collapse, Marta breaks the law: she finds Marko in hiding and flees with him to the Deliblato Sands. Two days without institutions, without procedures, without lies—just a woman and a child trying to understand what it means to be responsible for another person’s life.

In the end, Marta returns Marko. She is arrested. The system takes control once again. But Marko, bound and surrounded by police, sings a song he learned watching old Spanish films—Estando Contigo. His voice becomes the final act of resistance: pure, defiant, and unbroken.

CHÒRORO is an intimate drama about a child caught between love and administration, about a woman who crosses the line between professional duty and moral responsibility, and about a system that treats emotions as an obstacle to procedure. The film explores where procedure ends—and where the human being begins.

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Sedmogodišnji Marko, romsko dete odgajano od rođenja u hraniteljskoj porodici u selu kraj Smedereva, suočava se sa prinudnim odvajanjem, institucionalnim procesom koji mu oduzima jedini dom koji poznaje. Za sistem, to je „usvajanje“. Za Marka, to je otmica.Marta, iskusna prevoditeljka i posrednica u međunarodnim usvojenjima pri Ministarstvu za socijalna pitanja, navikla je da emocije prevodi u administrativni jezik. Godinama sprovodi isti ritual: deca se lome, odrasli objašnjavaju, dokumenti završavaju posao. Neutralnost joj je profesionalni oklop.

Dolazak španskog bračnog para, Giljerma i Luz Montalban, predstavlja njihovu „poslednju šansu“ za roditeljstvo, ali za Marka početak potpune destabilizacije. Nepripremljena hraniteljska porodica, odsutni socijalni radnici i mehanički sistem ostavljaju dete samo u borbi protiv neizbežnog. Markov otpor eskalira u bes, agresiju i pokušaje bekstva.U toj tišini institucionalnog nasilja, Marta postaje jedina figura razumevanja. Između nje i Marka razvija se suptilna, opasna bliskost – ne kao metod, već kao ljudska veza. Upravo ta veza počinje da ugrožava čitav proces. Uz pomoć Simona, briljantnog ali emocionalno slomljenog mladića sa Aspergerovim sindromom, Marta i Marko doživljavaju kratke trenutke slobode, izvan sistema i njegovih pravila. Ali iluzija bekstva se ruši kada Simon izvrši samoubistvo, a Marta shvati da je Markovo usvajanje pravno zaključeno, nepovratno. U trenutku moralnog sloma, Marta krši zakon: pronalazi Marka u skrovištu i beži s njim u Deliblatsku peščaru. Dva dana bez institucija, bez procedura, bez laži – samo dete i žena koji pokušavaju da shvate šta znači biti odgovoran za tuđi život.

Na kraju, Marta vraća Marka. Biva uhapšena. Sistem ponovo preuzima kontrolu. Ali Marko, vezan i okružen policijom, peva pesmu koju je naučio gledajući stare španske filmove – Estando Contigo. Njegov glas postaje poslednji čin otpora: čist, prkosan i nepokoren.

CHÒRORO je intimna drama o detetu uhvaćenom između ljubavi i administracije, o ženi koja prelazi granicu između profesionalne dužnosti i moralne odgovornosti, i o sistemu koji emocije tretira kao smetnju u procesu. Film istražuje gde prestaje procedura, a gde počinje čovek.