The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fearless freedom fighters, organizing a brave (though foredoomed) revolt against the tyranny of the landowners. The parallels drawn between the people of Bărăgan and Russia's revolutionary leaders are all but impossible to miss. It would have been nice, however, if the story had not been told in such a heavy-handed, spell-it-all-out fashion.
