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. During the fuss that ensues, the hospital is assaulted by crowds of visitors eager to see the "wonder girl" supposed to have been "ressurected" and now "able to work miracles", while the family and the prosecutor seem unable to build up a case against Aurica: did he commit a rape, or a corpse profanation? To make a bad situation worse, also appears Cezar, full of remorse - only to learn the truth and reject Magda, for not being a virgin anymore! All along this mess, Magda slowly recovers, using the crisis to see those around her in a startling clarity, and then attempt to have a better chance for her future,