Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels from place to another and finally arrives at her new outpost. It is a remote shed, where a half-insane co-worker is waiting for her. It is obvious that Weisz has not been promoted, but punished. However Weisz does not realize that herself. Without questioning she just accepts her promotion.

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened.

幽暗荒芜的非法边境，两个父亲来此寻找他们的孩子，一个只想把意外死亡的儿子带回故乡安葬，但却付不出钱买回被盗占的尸体；一个希望失踪的女儿一切安好，但却发现难以忍受的心碎事实。意外、死亡、犯罪、强暴、凌辱......，一切的追寻都走向宿命的哀伤，他们的生命也在无边无尽的苦难汪洋中，寻找着最后一片救赎的浮木，绝望中，幻想着希望的曙光。
罗马尼亚新锐导演西尼沙德雷金继2002年以《Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth》勇夺鹿特丹影展金虎奖等国际肯定后，又一探讨社会人性的深刻力作。全片以风格独特的黑色魔幻影像，细腻勾勒出东欧历经战乱内斗、宗教对立、动荡政治等多重冲击之后的荒谬景况，一出出悲哀至极的人生惨剧，一幕幕民族与历史的创痛，都在影像的娓娓叙述中，触动人性底层最温暖的渴望。
Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.