It is set in Romania in the modern era and is a psychological drama exploring the relationship of a couple over a seven-year period. It is based on the novel "Luminita, Mon Amour" by Cezar Paul Badescu.

Toma (Mircea Postelnicu) and Ana (Diana Cavallioti) at the beginning of the film are university students in the literature program where they meet. It becomes evident that Ana suffers from panic attacks and has significant unresolved psychological problems that include her step-father and a biological father who has disappeared. Toma is passionately drawn to her and they begin an intense relationship. Neither his upper-class parents nor her lower-class parents approve of the relationship, which only attaches Toma to Ana more strongly.

As time passes Ana becomes pregnant and they both explore psychological and religious answers to what is assumed to be Ana's issues. This includes a remarkable confession scene when Toma visits the local Orthodox priest. We see Toma's encounters with his psychoanalyst and know that Ana is also visiting a psychoanalyst, but the perspective is from Toma's view. After about three years they are married and their son, Tudor, is growing. Toma is still the breadwinner and Ana remains mostly at home. We begin to note that Toma has control issues.

As their son, Tudor becomes a bit older, Ana has become more confident and independent. Toma has walked away from his job as a newspaper journalist, and Ana has found her own well-paying position as an editor. Toma becomes more controlling and paranoid leading to the collapse of their relationship.

This was a very good, albeit intense, film in my mind. It got somewhat mixed reviews, especially compared to the director's first film. It was a bit hard to track the timing of some scenes--the only way to track it is to see how Toma's hairline changes from student to journalist to a man with thinning hair talking to his analyst. The time jumps are somewhat confusing.

The movie includes significant nudity including a difficult scene when Ana has overdosed on her medication.

The story lacked in depth but both of the actors performed well. By jumping from scene to scene in time you don't really get to know Ana and Toma and only are able to receive fragments of the truth of their relationship.

La verdad es que a mí la película, en el momento en el que empieza a ir de un lado para otro temporal, me empezó a cansar. Al principio es interesante, sí. Pero luego entre el sexo explícito, que no hace ninguna falta y que todo el rato es lo mismo, me da pereza. Luego por supuesto, ideología de género a tope.

Los actores están bien si, no fenomenales pero bien.

La iluminación es nefasta, como suele ser en ese cine.

La dirección, no se da cuenta de que cansa tanto vaivén temporal. Los planos son demasiado cerrados. Es demasiado larga.

Podría haber sido una película dura, pero el director la ha lastrado.

The truth is that the film, at the moment when it starts to go from one place to another temporary, began to tire me. At the beginning it's interesting, yes. But then between explicit sex, which does not need any and that all the time is the same, I'm lazy. Then, of course, gender ideology to the fullest.

The actors are fine yes, not great but good.

The lighting is disastrous, as it usually is in that cinema.

The management does not realize that it is so tiring so temporarily. The plans are too closed. It is too long

It could have been a hard movie, but the director has ballasted it