A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.

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.

21 December 1989. They held street protests in Bucharest against the Ceausescu regime. At nightfall, the authorities retaliates using weaponry against people demonstrating peacefully. A young nurse wakes up at midnight at the door with a teenager injured. Together with her boyfriend, doctor, take him to the hospital where she works. They gave the necessary care. The young man is out of danger. Morning young nurse discovers him in the hospital morgue, shot in the head. Assistance and her boyfriend are pressured to pass Security business silence. Friend gives assistance not. Their relationship is falling apart. For assistance inconvenient witness nightmare begins.

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30