Neglected and misunderstood by her family, disgusted by the frivolity of a provincial town's closed world, without any other horizon but casual sex as a pass-time, the sensitive and prude Magdalena Lazar hopes to find her fulfillment in the romance with her platonic boyfriend, the cadet Cezar Juravlea. But, following the intrigues of her so-called "best friend", Doina Agopian, who also has an eye for Cezar, Magda comes to believe that Cezar dumped her - right in the middle of her coming of age party. Distraught, she adds tranquilizers to alcohol and leaves he house unnoticed, soon to be found unconscious on street. Taken for dead, she is deposed to the mortuary - only to be raped by the necrophiliac attendant, Aurica Capatâna. This shock revives Magda, who turns out to have suffered only a clinical death.