Radu Constantin

At the heart of the story is a rural schoolteacher who, in 1944, leaves his native Bessarabia as the Red Army advances with heavy fighting. The gentle, cultured Sebastian Radu has every reason to avoid meeting the so-called liberators. And not just because one of the new regime’s first measures will be a background check, and Radu will have to write “noble” in the “social origin” field. The point is, our protagonist already has some experience dealing with representatives of the “new world.”

The film is about difficult-to-educate kids and those who are involved in their upbringing.

Vlad Voiku, a police captain and investigator for particularly important cases of the republic's Interior Ministry, is single-handedly fighting the local mafia. Vlad believes in the power of the law. But over time, it becomes clear that corruption has penetrated into the highest echelons of power. And then Vlad commits a desperate act...