The essence and moral of the Moldovian people living the rural life of the 90's. A film about people being materialstic, and losing it all in the end, Tarkovsky style.

On his birthday, Andrei Răzlog, chairman of a large-scale Moldovan kolkhoz association and a former Red Army fighter, recalls his life, the main events of which are intertwined with his village's struggle against local kulakism and post-war devastation.

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.