Gabriel y Gabriela son una pareja que, tras 20 años de matrimonio, ya no sienten ningún tipo de atracción el uno hacia el otro. Después de varias noches de intenso chateo, ambos están convencidos de haber encontrado el amante perfecto en internet.
Ana and Nicolae, a young Romanian couple, travel by bus from Bucharest to Vienna with the prospect of making quick money by handing over a stolen car. As soon as they arrive, however, they are reassured that the car is not yet ready for them. Ana then wants to go back to Romania, Nicolae would rather travel further west. They are stuck penniless in Vienna.
Angela (Liliana Pană) and Dorina (Magda Catone), working at the Match Factory, live in the home and dream of marriage and spouses to give them a decent living. But the illusions are shattered when the men encountered prove their lack of character: Titi (the boy whom Angela is in love with, appears at a time with a kid and is raped), a vendor, is pimp, Emil, an engineer, is a And Radu, an emigrant in Australia, is undistinguished by his Collie dog.
During the Romanian revolution in 1989, Pavel and Damian, two undercover officers of the Securitate secret service enter a building to search for shooters. They are followed by an amateur cameraman.
An island on a lake in the middle of the city. A suspended space where Ana is going running every day. It is there that she tries to unwind, to reconnect with herself, with her memories. But this island will also become a territory of transcendence, where Ana will find the strength to leave a painful past behind.
