Siberia. He was kept in a prisoner's camp, a gulag, forgotten even by the Soviets, only freed by the Chinese during conflicts on the frontiers of China and the Soviet Union. Péter György returns to his country with a few dollars and the mission to make known the horrors of the gulag. He arrives in Transylvania in a deplorable state only to discover that the country is no longer the same. He can not comprehend the changes that have occurred in the time in which he was away. In addition, his story and reports on gulags are in no way pleasing to the authorities.

     A policeman tries to help him to find the village where he was born and where he was captured. News about him, however, reaches the Party Committee, and his case is in the hands of the Securitate. They take away his money, his documents, and try to remove from him that which not even 22 years of captivity have erased: his identity, his memories.

      Perversion of the system culminates in information coming from a Chinese "comrade" that he no longer exists, and that his story is outdated. "Chinese protection" no longer exists. He is again sent away. And he is on the run, as though to leave this world behind, finally to find his village.