Plot Summary:A solitary mountain man finds a young woman who has been beaten and abandoned in the woods. He makes her the object of his passion, but her dark past catches up on them.
The story is set in the 1930s, somewhere in the mountains in Romania. It centres on Simion, a ranger who lives like a hermit in the middle of the forest. One day, he stumbles upon a beaten-up woman, Irina, and tries to find out who has hurt her. He also tries to stay away from her but fails.