Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

After a play of the same name by Gheorghe Ciprian.

Two lovers are kept away from each others during childhood because of a secret family recipe war between the two families. After they grow up they meet again and try to regain the recipe to make a new family restaurant work.

Former classmates Dana, Ionica, Geta, and Cosmin face adult challenges: Dana, now a reporter craving thrilling cases, ropes Cosmin into playing detective. Meanwhile, Geta and Ionica’s romance is shattered when Ionica is mistaken for notorious drug trafficker “Blondul” and arrested.