In a Transylvanian village, Barbu appears to lead a simple life with Mara and their son, Codrin. Yet, beneath this quiet surface lies an identity he spent years trying to bury. When he intervenes in a robbery, his face appears on television, and the people he fled from track him down. Forced to defend his family and return to a world he thought he had left behind, Barbu discovers that the past never truly disappears.