This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
The relationship between a younger painter and an older woman.
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
