Twenty years later it is filmed another two decades after the Ceferistii. This time, however, time passes faster for the documentarian than for the character: Barta dies during filming, which is why the film is continued by his colleague and friend Mirel Ilieșiu.
The director's disappearance transforms the tone of the film, giving it a touch of melancholy that is surprising in the context of the studio's usual production. At over seventy, the former filmmaker is now an old man looking back and reflecting on the meaning of life. On the verge of fifty - exactly the age at which his friend Barta passed away - director Mirel Ilieșiu finds himself in a reflective moment, inclined more towards melancholy and less towards quantifying the changes in the Romanian railway system in the two decades that separate this film from the previous one. The result is a calm, introspective film that conveys a mood shared by character and director alike, and which also colours Gabor's perspective on Romania's communist future,