A young man falls for the wife of a violent and jealous gangster. Starring Shia LaBeouf.

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When his mother dies, Charlie decides to follow his odd instinct to go to Bucharest. On board the plane to Romania, he meets a nice man who dies during the flight. Moved, Charlie meets his daughter Gabi, cellist. But when Charlie gets closer to her, he comes up against Nigel, her extremely jealous gangster husband, who threatens to kill him if he ever sees her again. A risk Charlie is prepared to take to find meaning in his life, as he follows the beat of his loving heart.

Charlie Countryman doesn’t make it easy: with a naïve love story, a cruel antagonist, easy elegance, gratuitous violence, super-slick direction and clip-like editing, it seems like the worst archetype of a debut film. But Fredrik Bond nonetheless instills his colorful love story with irresistible tenderness, flirting with the genre film. Thanks to his amazing performance, Shia LaBeouf contributes to much of the movie’s charm, as illuminated by a few superb scenes.