After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.
Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.
A few important events from the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907.
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
A wealthy skirt chasing drunkard marries a simple country gal, yet he doesn't take time off from his regular 'affairs'.