Mefodie Apostolov

Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...

About the concerns of the reserve officer, and now the secretary of the district committee Kirill Buzhor.

Grishka Hamuraru, the grandson of the underground fighter Samson Hamuraru, who is still unjustly considered a traitor in the Moldovan village of Vioreni for having led a partisan group to ruin during the war, decides to conduct his own investigation and restore his grandfather's good name.

For a long time, the chairman of the collective farm, Andrei Spirya, has been dreaming of moving the village, which lies in a lowland and is often flooded by floods, to the mountain. Some of the collective farmers are against resettlement. Suddenly, a severe flood occurred, which caused a lot of destruction.