20世纪80年代末,罗马尼亚正处在齐奥塞斯库独裁统治末期。民主被剥夺,秘密警察横行,人民噤若寒蝉,苟且偷生。 在一个偏僻乡村,马帝家大女儿17岁的女孩爱娃(Doroteea Petre 饰)正经历一段美好的爱情,她的男友亚历山大(Ionut Becheru 饰)是邻居秘密警察(Grigore Gonta 饰)的儿子。两人无意中打碎了教学楼走廊内的齐奥塞斯库的雕像,最终导致爱娃被送往工读学校。在那里,她结识了渴望自由的男孩安德烈(Cristian Vararu 饰),两人甚至制定了一个逃出罗马尼亚的计划。 他们的计划被爱娃年幼的弟弟拉拉里路(Timotei Duma 饰)得知,分外依赖爱娃的小男孩为了留住姐姐,开始和小伙伴密谋推翻齐奥塞斯库的政权…… 本片荣获2006戛纳电影节“一种关注”单元最佳女主角奖。Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.