In the 1970s, Grigorescu's practice was driven by resistance to a particular moment of political oppression in Romania, which saw the rise of the cult of the leader and of an increasingly powerful police state. In the film, the artist plays two opposing roles, appearing alternatively as Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu—wearing a mask of the leader's face—and as a common citizen who wants to ask Ceaușescu questions and confront him about the decline of the people’s welfare. Grigorescu performed in the intimacy of his own apartment, under the scrutiny of the camera lens, enacting the trauma of political reality in communist society.