Rosetta is a young woman in constant motion, living in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother and consumed by a simmering anger and her seemingly endless search for a job. Like so many of the Dardennes' protagonists, Rosetta finds herself trapped, forced to choose between moral and economic survival. What might become a sociological treatise in the hands of less deft filmmakers becomes an absorbing cinematic parable about the consequential weight of decisions.