[1] Dumitru Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in 1990s Romania.
Costa is being helped during this investigation by Alina, a good-looking young topographer engineer; it is love at first sight between them both.
Two other miners are killed in a long closed down gallery.
The investigation relentlessly led by Costa soon begins to bother the local authorities.
Costa and Alina receive threats over the phone.