Sorina Stănculescu

Andrei, a lathe operator in Constanța shipyard and also a rugby team player, pendulates between two love interests. He also gets involved for a little while in some criminal activity. In the end decides to go to college to Galați, leaving all this behind.

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.