Iuliu Pîslariuc

A demobilized soldier, Călin Șaptefraț, returns to his war-torn Moldovan village. Before the war, he was the district champion in the traditional Moldovan wrestling, and now, despite his injuries, he is determined to revive the village’s sporting life. His energy and determination inspire many of his fellow villagers...

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.

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.

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.