One Floor Below 2015 Sandu Patrascu is an ordinary Romanian citizen, living in a comfortable apartment in Bucharest He has a good job in the vehicle registration business, a wife no nonsense Olga, a teenage son computer obsessed Matei and a trained dog On the whole, he feels good about himself One day though, he gets upset by an incident he is the witness of a violent quarrel taking place on the other side of a female neighbors door Worse, Vali, another neighbor, leaves the apartment while Sandu stands in the staircase listening Even worse, Laura, the young woman he has heard shouting is found murdered What will Patrascu do under such circumstances