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Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

When Radu learns he only has a few more months to live, he flees until he ends up in a remote village, at Nea Pavel's, where he finds refuge in his small cottage at the top of a hill. Time passes and Radu begins to live a new life, forgetting about death and enjoying the simplicity of the moment. Together with the old man he roams the environs "seeking for wind". But when he realizes that he has fallen in love with a woman from the village, he remembers his imminent ending. Where will the wind take him from there?

A sequel to Morometii (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism.