Marius Rogojinski

Une petite ville de province roumaine s'apprête à fêter Noël seize ans après la Révolution. C'est la période que Virgile Jederescu, patron de la télévision locale, choisit pour confronter ses concitoyens à leur propre histoire. Aidé de ses deux amis, Piscoce, vieux retraité solitaire, et Manescu, professeur d'histoire criblé de dettes, il organise un débat télévisé qui a pour ambition de répondre à la question qui le préoccupe depuis longtemps : leur ville a-t-elle réellement participé à la révolution ?

For many years, three Romanian village boys, Stelica, Aurel and Mitu, have remained the closest of friends. In their youths, they planned to pursue careers as shepherds, but in time their individual paths diverged - leading Mitu into the military, Stelica into the local police force and Aurel into the employ of Maricel, a wealthy resident of the community. The men's worlds change forever when a newcomer arrives in the hamlet - a young woman named Lilica, accompanied by Maricel. She's toting two trucks full of Dutch chickens with her, which inadvertently spreads the bird flu to much of the local populace. The boys, however, soon realize how they can ingeniously turn this potential crisis into a solid profit-making venture for themselves.