灵感来自罗马尼亚作家马克斯·布雷赫的同名自传式小说。故事发生在1937年，20岁出头的男子伊曼纽因患脊椎骨结核而终日待在黑海沿岸的一家疗养院里，全身打上石膏，动弹不得。在这期间，他与另一位病人索兰芝相爱，这里的病人们虽然身体在慢慢枯萎，但思想不肯屈服，他们谈论文学、哲学与历史，努力活出生命的意义。1939年，这本杰作在罗马尼亚出版，马克斯·布雷赫在经历了10年的痛苦折磨后离开人世，去世时年仅29岁。

70年代，伊朗女孩赫拉在罗马尼亚上大学，她认识了一个叫玛利亚的同学。在79年反对君主制的革命爆发后，赫拉怀着政治变革的希望回国，此后再也没离开。接下来的几十年，赫拉和玛利亚通过书信传情的方式，交流她们对政治、社会和人生的看法，直到罗马尼亚也迎来苏东巨变。两场革命之间，是两个女人超越时空的精神恋爱。导演用详实的历史资料作为支撑，通过模糊纪录片和剧情片边界的方式讲述这段感人往事。

70年代，伊朗女孩赫拉在罗马尼亚上大学，她认识了一个叫玛利亚的同学。在79年反对君主制的革命爆发后，赫拉怀着政治变革的希望回国，此后再也没离开。接下来的几十年，赫拉和玛利亚通过书信传情的方式，交流她们对政治、社会和人生的看法，直到罗马尼亚也迎来苏东巨变。两场革命之间，是两个女人超越时空的精神恋爱。导演用详实的历史资料作为支撑，通过模糊纪录片和剧情片边界的方式讲述这段感人往事。

　　Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.

The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumanare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is ?tefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actr...

　　The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.