Summer 1913, in a village near Buzăul. Ionica, the schoolteacher's son, witnesses the hard life of the poor villagers. The war is coming and his landless neighbors have to work 16 hours a day at the oil wells for miserable wages. Is there hope for them?
A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
