This film is about a functional alcoholic, who works as a lathe operator in a factory and is mentoring a young man.

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?

A counterespionage office get a mission to go to the Black Sea shore and catch a spy network that got their hands on a secret fuel formula.