Together with Mereanu, Jianu plots to overthrow the Phanariot regime.

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he’s torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.

Based on Romanian legends and folk tales about the outlaws from Carpathian Mountains. The film is the middle episode of an adventure trilogy that almost four decades ago anticipated the series of local films with lawless heroes from the 1960s and 1970s; unfortunately, the other two films, “Iancu Jianu” and “Ciocoii”, were not preserved.