Novel
En la Rumanía de 1925, la hermosa Marie-Therese Von Debretsy, casada con un capitán del ejército rumano, es seducida descaradamente delante de su marido en un baile de la alta sociedad por el Príncipe. Ante los celos del marido, éste pide el traslado a otra guarnición, así reasignan a la familia a un desolado y peligroso puesto avanzado en la frontera con Bulgaria.
Novel
A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Writer
Adam, a young and poor fisherman, falls in love with Uliana, but the girl's parents want her to marry Simion. To get rid of him, Simion blames Adam of the drowning of his fellow fishermen he was with out in a storm.
Writer
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
