Alex is an artist shunned by success whose love life is affected by the career rise of his girlfriend, Carmen. Alex is sent to a maximum security penitentiary to stage the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The great Shakespeare with prisoners. In the face of their efforts to overcome his limits, Alex realizes that he is a prisoner in his own life. For their part, the inmates do everything to be selected in the penitentiary theater festival, because each scene has a hatch through which they can escape.

A documentary work about the emblematic Romanian character Serghei Mizil, the son of Paul Niculescu-Mizil, a former communist dignitary, in which Serghei presents in detail the way of life and brutality of the system during the communist regime in Romania.