The essence and moral of the Moldovian people living the rural life of the 90's. A film about people being materialstic, and losing it all in the end, Tarkovsky style.
One can achieve a free life only in an irreconcilable struggle against the class enemy. With this slogan, after being wounded, Mikhail returns from the civil war to one of the Moldovan villages, creates a Council of the Poor and makes the first decision — to plow the landlords' lands... The film takes place in the spring of 1917.
During World War II, an old man, David, living with his daughter-in-law, Maria, while his son is away at war, is being regularly harassed by a German airplane, until one day, when he decides he's had enough.
The story follows Onea, a handsome young man who sets out into his village on a Sunday morning with a clear mission: to find a fiancée and finally end his bachelor days. However, his plans take an unexpected turn when he ends up at the gate of Violeta—his former lover whom he had abandoned three years prior, leaving her pregnant.
