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Bored by religious
instruction and painting
lessons, a group of friends
at a convent school spend
their days dreaming of
romance, fashion and the
latest gramophone records.
One by one, they give up
their visions of adventure and submit to provincial life,
marrying for money and status, like their mothers before
them. Plain, jaundiced Lucretia, becomes the envy of her
friends when Paul, a glamorous dandy proposes, but she
hides a shocking secret that will destroy their marriage and
expose them to scandal. Only Adriana Dunea, the most beautiful and talented girl in
the school seems destined for happiness with her childhood
sweetheart, Gelu. But everything changes when, on a trip
to Bucharest, she meets Cello Viorin, a famous composer…
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Bored by religious
instruction and painting
lessons, a group of friends
at a convent school spend
their days dreaming of
romance, fashion and the
latest gramophone records.
One by one, they give up
their visions of adventure and submit to provincial life,
marrying for money and status, like their mothers before
them. Plain, jaundiced Lucretia, becomes the envy of her
friends when Paul, a glamorous dandy proposes, but she
hides a shocking secret that will destroy their marriage and
expose them to scandal. Only Adriana Dunea, the most beautiful and talented girl in
the school seems destined for happiness with her childhood
sweetheart, Gelu. But everything changes when, on a trip
to Bucharest, she meets Cello Viorin, a famous composer…