Bucharest 1989 - the final year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu.
One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend Alex accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Alex is protected by his father, a Party officer, but Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There, she meets Andrei, a boy from a family of dissidents, and decides to escape Romania with him by crossing the Danube.
Lalalilu is more and more convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So, with his friends from school, he devises a plan to kill the dictator.