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A young nationalist and AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) supporter goes to visit his friends in Bucharest, to convince them to go to the December 1st Parade. During the evening, the group of friends have discussions about the political situation in the country and get drunk. The next morning, none of them make it to the parade.
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A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.