In 2016, a film student exploring a rural Moldovan village found over 4,000 soviet-era photographs in the attic of an abandoned house. they were all taken by Zaharia Cusnir in the 1950s-60s, an unknown alcoholic who died forgotten. He captured the life of an entire community.
When the film student spoke to the surviving daughter of Zaharia Cusnir, she was uninterested in the collection and dismissed it as "garbage that no one needs".















