Marieta Sadova

Mitrea Kocor, a young butler, gives up his work in the fields to join Antonescu's Romanian army, which fought alongside Nazi forces during World War II. After spending time in Soviet captivity and a prisoner-of-war camp, he returns to his home village to participate in post-war reconstruction.

A certain village nobleman Amédée dies, leaving a substantial legacy, but there is a matrimonial clause. The first of two men (who do not know each other) who will marry will receive the inheritance of one million.

On the Danube Plain, several pupils, mobilized by the example of a pioneer, adopt an exemplary school and social conduct and impose it on the undisciplined.