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.

During their internship at an archaeological site, two students from the Faculty of History find ancient coins that support the nationalist thesis on the continuity of the Romanian people throughout the centuries in Romania. One of them is determined to present the discovery at an important international historical conference organized in Adamclisi, but his lazier colleagues look at him with envy.