It begins in New York with a painting of God by Fra Angelico, which has been stolen from the Louvre by a crowd connected with the famous Romanian thief Gigi Kent. It continues in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest, before ending up in the Maramures, the Carpathian region that bleeds from Romania into Ukraine. But are the Maramures real? Are they a dream, or a nightmare, come to earth? In Maramures (2001), Tsepeneag gives life to a world of memorable characters (a hospitalized woman who keeps getting smaller), filled with strange happenings and indelible reflections on everything from love to soccer to exile.