With a crisp, witty script co-written by The Death of Mr. Lazarescu screenwriter Razvan Radulescu, The Paper Will Be Blue is based on the real story of a frustrated soldier who deserts and is tracked down by his unit on the night of Communist despot Nicolae Ceausescu’s overthrow in December, 1989. Shot in cinema-verité style, Muntean’s second feature makes vivid the confusion and radical uncertainty of the regime change while still finding moments of wry, unexpected humor in the eye of the storm that would define modern Romanian history.