If you lift the curtain to take a peek backstage, Central and Eastern European political campaigns often look like a confused mixture of fragile and at times incompetent humanity, half-digested ideology, and unabashed marketing pushes. Even the best candidates are swallowed up by their own campaign machinery, a phenomenon which leaves behind it a flattened field of choices for voters. With impressive access, attention to salient details, and a full understanding of the role the human element plays in today’s political mechanisms, this film documents the 2014 candidates for Slovakia’s presidency. Its tone, a melancholy mix of amusement and alarm, will be sadly familiar to the Romanian public.