Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close friends and occasional, eagerly awaited rendezvous' with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment into a new house, she decides to get a dog. It is something that she wanted ever since she was a child and now that she lives on her own she can finally fulfill this wish.

在妻子Ioana死于车祸的几周后，终日沉湎于酒精和孤寂的Alexandru一个人度过了他的42岁生日。就在这时，一个腼腆的年轻男孩Sebastian出现了，他是Ioana过去五个月里的情人。Sebastian向Alexandru提出了一个无理的请求：他希望Alexandru能帮助自己度过Ioana离世的伤痛。

They've been rivals for a lifetime. Now they face each other in one final battle, and they are about to find out that in the practice of tolerance one's enemy is the best teacher.

《四月三周两天》导演克里斯蒂安·蒙吉联合其他四位罗马尼亚导演的最新短片集，《黄金时代的故事》由6个短片故事组成，讲述了罗马尼亚的共产主义时期的普通人生活。