4 month, 3 weeks and 2 days is, first of all, for me, a story about personal choices. It is also a story about the subtle and often invisible consequences of indoctrination. It talks about friendship, responsibility and love. But it is mainly a story about abortion - set in a period when this was seen as an act of freedom and protest against the communist regime that banned abortion in the attempt of growing the number of disciplined working hands.
I remember this very clearly from my twenties: there was no moral issue about abortion - the biggest worry was that you could have been caught. It happened often that women died in the process but we spend very little time thinking about that.
We were so young.