Romania in 1966: Nicolae Ceausescu issues Decree 770, banning abortion for any woman under forty who has fewer than four children, and outlawing contraception outright. The state wants a bigger workforce and a bigger army, and it gets one fast, a million more babies than the average year within three years, kindergartens built overnight to absorb them, children conscripted into mandatory sports and cultural programs to shape the New Romanian Man. The film builds this history from archival newsreels, clips from Romanian fiction films of the era, and interviews with gynaecologists who worked under the decree and mothers who lived inside it, including women who held prominent public positions at the time. The cost sits underneath the population numbers: illegal abortions performed in secret, women dying from botched procedures, others jailed simply for having had one. The New Romanian Man project reads, by the end, less like a demographic policy and more like a decade-long experiment in controlling women's bodies by law.