The year 1954 confronts Niculae Moromete with difficult choices. His tumultuous love affair with Vera, a married woman, comes to a head when Niculae can't bear the thought of sharing her and Vera can't make up her mind. Shaken in his own political convictions, Niculae is also faced with a lack of trust in the literary guild, increasingly influenced by the ideological shifts of the time. In the midst of this chaos, a young poetess, Aurora, insinuates herself into his life and ingenuously offers him a way out of his professional and personal dilemmas, inspiring him to publish the novel “Moromeții”.