George Macovescu

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?

The capital city of Romania is documented from the turn of 20th century to the more modern times under post WWII Communism.