At 12:08 on December 22, 1989, the announcement of Ceausescu's deposition was made on Romanian national television ending years of communist rule. Sixteen years later, in an unnamed small town “somewhere east of Bucharest,” a producer at the impoverished local television channel organizes a talk show to commemorate the event in which locals discuss how they contributed to the revolution. The guests include Manescu, an alcoholic school-teacher and Piscoci, a lonely old-timer who jumps at the chance to join in, but mainly because he'd like some company. What follows, in this Cannes Camera d'Or-winning gem, is an absurdly comic farce in the best Eastern European tradition.