When high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends a film to her students, a parent's complaint spirals her life into chaos.
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.
By a strange coincidence, an amateur ornithologist comes face to face with a pastry chef. A tale of infidelity, blackmail and violence in a small country cake shop.
A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.