E toamna anului 1944. Încercând să salveze cei doi cai ai familiei, un adolescent pornește într-o călătorie inițiatică traversând peisajul sălbatic al Munților Apuseni.
End of World War 2. Nicu, a teenager whose father went to war never to return, works with the family horses pulling logs down the mountain. When more German soldiers retreating from the Russian front arrive in the village and seize his horses, Nicu takes them back and runs away in the forest trying to save them.