The film begins in the summer of 1914. At 75 years old, King Carol I, the founder of modern Romania, is living a quiet life at the Peleş Castle. He has by his side Queen Elisabeth, his devoted wife and friend.
Un policier roumain fait équipe avec une petite équipe de vieux amis de la résistance juive durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour réussir à convaincre toutes les personnes présentes sur le lieu du cambriolage qu’ils ne font que tourner un film.
As the Romans under Trajan take the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa, the Dacian king Decebalus and his closest followers are forced to retreat. Trajan takes command of the city and orders one of his officers, Tiberius, to pursue the defeated king. In a cave, Decebalus broods on his defeat, and tells his devoted supporter Gerula that the Dacian people must continue to resist. Tiberius and his men catch up with Decebalus and Gerula. Decebalus kills himself to avoid capture. To Gerula's horror, Tiberius chops off Decebalus' head and right hand as trophies to take back to Trajan. While they are returning to the Roman camp Gerula escapes. He gathers together a group of Dacians and takes them to a part of the land not yet under Roman control.
Le film se déroule en 1989 à Bucarest dans la dernière année de la dictature de Nicolae Ceaușescu. Eva, adolescente de 17 ans est amoureuse d'Alex. Ils se retrouvent en secret dans une salle du collège et par accident cassent un buste du dictateur. Dénoncés, ils passent en conseil de discipline. Alex est protégé par son père, apparatchik du régime mais Eva est envoyée en maison de redressement. Son jeune frère, Lalalilu, aidé de sa bande de copains, décide de se venger de cette injustice et échafaude un plan pour assassiner Ceausescu. De son côté, Eva, qui a rencontré un fils de dissident, décide de fuir la Roumanie en traversant le Danube à la nage.
1 – Legenda activistului în inspecție (en français : « La légende de la visite officielle ») Le maire de Visurești et son assistant sont sur les dents : on attend la visite officielle d'un dignitaire étranger (un certain Giscard d'Estaing). Pour cela, on a tout repeint, on a sorti les drapeaux, on va mettre des vaches partout et on a fait apprendre un poème au fils du maire. Et lorsque les camarades-inspecteurs du parti viennent passer l’inspection, ils refusent qu’on sorte les vaches (il y a un Indien dans la délégation) pour les remplacer par des moutons qu’il faut ramener, du coup, des pâturages.
Set in post war Romania, Tudor Miclovan, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war, is now a police detective determined to rid his city of gangsters and black marketeers.
An International petroleum company named "Consolidated Oil" secretly lights an oil well in the Sahara because the local government in the Middle East doesn't comply with their demands. Due to the expected size of the damage oil prices hit the roof. Merely as an alibi the company's president (Mr. Stewart) assigns John Carter aka "Salamander" to take care of this matter. Yet once Carter arrives on location one of the company's representants hinders him to extinguish the endurance burning and signalises to him that this catastrophe happened for a reason. "Consolidated Oil" hires a Romanian crew with lesser experience in regards to this kind of burnings. But the Romanian specialists team up with Carter and find prove for arson. Step by step they succeed in putting the seven fire sources to rest. "Consolidated Oil" tries to sabotage the firefighting but their attempts are proven futile. Finally the International news media disclose the conspiration. Stewart is unmasked as one of the driving forces behind the scheme. He needs to learn that he is chosen as a pawn sacrifice and while he still thinks this over he is murdered. His secretary isn't surprised at all when she's informed he just died. Instead she is eager to show the obituary she wrote. Meanwhile the Romanian firefighters are publicly celebrated in Arabia.
Roman revient dans son pays natal pour liquider son héritage familial, il se voit léguer un immense terrain en plaine, mais de sombres souvenirs viendront obscurcir ses tentatives de se dépêtrer du passé de son père .