Paul Anghel

On the Danube Plain, several pupils, mobilized by the example of a pioneer, adopt an exemplary school and social conduct and impose it on the undisciplined.

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.