里卡多决定开车到印度旅行，像他以前那样做，带着嬉皮士与他的货车，穿过欧洲、土耳其、伊朗和巴基斯坦的东部。 但现在的情况非常不同，里卡多在过去十年里一直坐在轮椅上，患有退行性疾病，现在处于生命的最后阶段。他想在恒河的河岸上迎接他死亡的到来。

This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous.

At the seaside, on the beach, two people experience extreme situations. A beautiful Western mother asks a gypsy boy to look after her 4 year old baby; a husband and father fights ennui by flirting with the same beautiful foreigner while teaching her how to swim. But the story takes a different course when the beautiful mother disappears in the waves and the gypsy boy realises that something happened of which he can take advantage, as he’s really interested in the vanished lady’s video camera and bag, now left on the beach. The story portrays a moralistic family focussed on other people’s “indecent” behaviour and unable to observe their own, a family that maps out the hardly traceable thin red line between good and evil, without quite becoming a negative hero. The gypsy boy, on the other hand, acts on his own interests, that is, stealing, but the way he does it reveals a superior kind of humanity, disinterested and in obvious opposition to the family’s. This a story about the Romanian society, which enforces certain stereotypes about minorities that act according to those stereotypes – most probably, our fault, too… With neither moralising intentions, nor “good and bad guys”, the story simply displays a range of characters normally present in our life, including commonplace reactions that are hard to condemn or reprove. The script’s only conclusion is a happy one: any cross-cultural interaction is beneficial, after all - at least culturally, if not socially.