It's winter, around Christmas Eve. People are getting ready to slaughter their pigs and gather around the boiled brandy pot, the straws, the big fire, the sausages and the bacon. As we travel around the country, through Maramures, Oltenia, Muntenia and Transylvania, we get to know the exact traditions that Romanian peasants still hold. Will they be able to preserve them in the European Union? Can a new law really change a hundred years tradition?