Seen from the present, "Meeting with the Parents" works simultaneously as a film as mundane as possible and as a somewhat enigmatic one. It is filmed at Philology-History High School no. 36, in Bucharest, in 1980, which switched to an industrial profile six years later, at the time of the filming of a sequel, with the same characters all grown up (The Graduates). The film contradicts the reading habits of the contemporary gaze at the intersection with documentary representations of socialist Romania. The common, now normative, imaginary of childhood associated with that era is missing here. We find no properly aligned pioneers, no passionate declarations of love for the Father Party. It is perhaps still early for them: the 80s are just beginning.