The movie is a portray of the inhabitants of an ordinary Romanian village,before the beginning of ww2.A dramatic story about poverty and ignorance..People ready to sacrifice their family members for a little more welfare.Sadness,misery.All seen through the eyes of a man less brutified than the others,a man who realizes his misery and tries to overcome it. It is a brutal and in the same time sensitive introspection in simple people's life,a naked portray of their existence and inner battles.I don't know if foreigners will find the story interesting or just repulsive but I can't help calling it a masterpiece.The Moromete family could have been my grandparents.