Tudor Giurgiu broadens the picture of the 1989 Romanian revolution after the defeat of the Securitate secret service and dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s execution by following events in Sibiu. When a mob attacks a police station, the police officers are helpless and try to escape – they take off their uniforms, but the crowd enters the arms depot and a shootout begins between civilians, secret police, and the army. Nobody finds out who is guilty or innocent. The intoxication of killing is omnipresent. Armed vigilantes roam the streets, intoxicated by the vision of freedom. The chaotic events, reminiscent of a civil war, are brought to life by the director through mini-portraits of detainees. All of them, guilty and innocent, end up in an empty pool. The suggestive image of bloody anarchy without winners or losers is accompanied by a moving song about the beauty of freedom.