Summer 1913, in a village near Buzăul. Ionica, the schoolteacher's son, witnesses the hard life of the poor villagers. The war is coming and his landless neighbors have to work 16 hours a day at the oil wells for miserable wages. Is there hope for them?
Liliana Tudor, Gheorghe Marin, Violeta Andrei, Florina Luican, Siegfried Sigmund, Emanoil Petruţ, Andrei Finti, Mária Bodor, Alexandru Racoviceanu, Gerhard Kwanka, Florin Babau, Ana Stoica