The action takes place during the summer holiday at the Black Sea. The plot confronts an influential surgeon and a carpenter accused to have stolen the doctor's personal belongings from the beach. The neurotic doctor involves himself in the inquiry, ultimately directing the interrogation. The burglary victim, Theodor Hristea, a surgeon at the peak of his career and social life, self-confident and well connected (played by Victor Rebengiuc, a major Romanian actor), his girlfriend, Cristina (played by Carmen Galin) and their common friend, Stefan (played by Marin Moraru) - find themselves on holiday near the summer resort of Mamaia. The doctor has a detective passion and accuses – just on account of a physical resemblance with the real thief - a young carpenter ("The Kid", played by Gheorghe Visu) who happens to come at the same beach the day following the burglary. The police is summoned, a long inquiry follows, declarations are taken, and The Kid is sent to trial. The doctor plays an active part in the investigation. Although the doctor's girlfriend and his friend doubt the identity of the accused, the surgeon insists in being right and succeeds in sending the innocent young man to prison.
The accused, totally irrelevant on the social scale, is fired due to his unexplained absences from work during the long dragging period of the investigation that failed to produce any proof, as well as his several months in prison. And still, up to a certain point, the young carpenter proves to be, psychologically, the strongest. He gets back to life, gets married, continues to work, although more introverted than before, circumscribed to his sad destiny. Obsessed by his need to be always right, the doctor goes to meet the young man again and make him confess the theft that he in fact has never committed. Infuriated, the young man starts shouting to be left alone, and more as a self-defence stabs the neurotic doctor in the stomach with the tool he happened to be working with at that moment. The film ends with a scene showing both men running on the beach: The Kid to escape from being caught, and the doctor, badly wounded, to persuade the young man to accept a theft he has never committed.

In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.

影片分为两个不同的部分。第一部分由米尔恰·韦罗尤执导，描述了二十世纪初罗马尼亚一个寡妇的悲惨生活。第二部分由丹·皮察执导，讲的是一个婚礼上的新娘。
米尔恰·韦罗尤(1941年出生)和丹·皮察(1938年出生)是罗马尼亚最具独创性的电影制作人，他们一起制作了两部杰出的电影：《石婚》(1972)和《金魂》(1974)。毫无疑问，两部电影都是罗马尼亚有史以来最好的电影之一，在全世界受到了巨大的好评，被纽约现代艺术博物馆收藏。
《石婚》根据罗马尼亚作家Ion Agarbiceanu的小说改编，描写了上世纪初特兰西瓦尼亚乡村的生活状况。这些故事充满了一种深深的悲剧性的震撼，一种似乎无处不在的宿命感。所有这些都在令人难忘的摄影中被表达出来。毫不夸张地说，每一个镜头都是一件艺术品。
在第一部分中，女演员 Leopoldina Balanuta 的每一个动作、每一个眼神都充满了感性和智慧，她知道如何暗示多年的生活、希望和绝望的积累、固执的爱以及在沉默的斗篷下压抑的巨大痛苦。这些有力的镜头语言，只有第二部分的 Mircea Diaconu (逃兵) 眼中悲剧性的天真才能匹配。
两位导演中，米尔恰·韦罗尤喜欢充满沉思的冰冷凝结的风格，而丹·皮察在他的部分，则把它变成了一个充满活力的故事，有许多讽刺的时刻，富有表现力的人物，并在最后有一个痛苦的悲剧转折。
无论如何，《石婚》是一部值得一遍又一遍地观看的电影。每一遍，它似乎都增长了新的维度。