

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
Lucian Pintilie
Mitica's assistant

Gheorghe Visu
Priest in the train

Virgil Andriescu
Truica
Ion Pavlescu

Matei Alexandru
Butusina

Leopoldina Bălănuță
Nela's mother