Freedom recreates the incidents events and details from an outcry against the government in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in December 1989. It is a sign of the violent times that in no time at all, the emptied-out swimming pool becomes a make-shift prison when, in a desperate attempt to escape the siege, Police Captain Viorel is captured by the army and thrown into the pool. There are sick civilians, angry protestors, hungry and dying bystanders all