Comedy in two parts by Tudor Popescu

Artistic director: Mihai Lungeanu
Scenography: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu
Music: Trendler Iosif and Cornel Cristei
Premiere date: June 12, 1980

After fifteen years together, marriage has become an endless source of bickering, maddening arguments that spring from nowhere, and malicious suspicions for Ioana and Dinu. To escape, at least for a few days, from this circle, Dinu invents a sprain that forces him to stay at home with his leg in a cast, while Ioana goes to the mountains with their son. Once they leave, the cast miraculously disappears, making way for a long-awaited party with his bachelor friends. On his return, Dinu accidentally enters the apartment below, where he comes across a beautiful stranger, Otilia, whom he prevents from committing a burglary by leading her to his home. The extramarital affair that is invitingly announced cannot take place, however, due to the omnipresence of Ioana, who, although gone, leaves her voice imprinted on a tape recorder, bringing Dinu into a state of despair bordering on madness.

When, the next morning, Pamfil, the neighbor from the apartment below, is found dead, Dinu sees his whole life turned upside down. Knowing that his fingerprints are found at the crime scene and that he spent a lot of time with the criminal, Dinu already sees himself imprisoned for complicity in murder. The terrible disorder to which he falls prey makes him realize how much he actually loves Ioana and how useless their daily grind is.

The police investigation reveals that Pamfil is not dead at all, but suffered a heart attack, and Otilia was in his apartment looking for a valuable archaeological piece, stolen by the impostor Pamfil from the girl's father.

Ioana's return from the mountains is a moment of enlightenment and, thanks to the intervention of neighbor Paul, witness to the entire episode, a potential new beginning for the two.

Distribution:

Dinu:  Nicolae Barosan
Joanna:  Ileana Iurciuc
Sibyl:  Olympia Tomorrow
Paul:  Ion Abrudan
Otilia:  Mariana Neagu
Militiaman:  Eugen Harizomenov