Benedict Dabija

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians.

The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded the doomed man to dictate his gangster memoirs for the use of the Books & Books publishing house. Its director offers him a "bonus to life" only if he plays along. But the Kid prefers to write about truth, people and love.

The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.

Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.