Helped by an up-and-coming reporter, they want to prove that corruption has reached the cabinet, in order to turn the tide of public opinion and to propose the general as the next Chief of state.
The point of departure of the film, the novel Ciocoii noi cu bodyguard, was described by the Romanian critic Andrei Gorzo as a "meek, irrepressible prose, in which metaphors keep coming together against nature and proliferate like metastases", its characters standing out for their malicious and clever tongue.
Likewise film has been labeled "stupid and irresponsible" because it takes on the clichés frequently conveyed by newspapers and TV that the entire political class is corrupt, with the final scene being described as "a cabotin declaration of despair".
[3] The Romanian literary critic Angelo Mitchievici wrote in an article published in România literară that "the film is a bit bad" because of its weak script, the stilted speech that "lets the whole mechanism of the story show" and the sentences full of clichés.
The attempt to paint a fresco of Romanian political cul-de-sacs remains unfinished; in a rare moments and sketches the director has nonetheless captured the essence of democracy.