Two short stories by the Rumanian writer Ion Agarbiceanu, dealing with peasant life and traditions in the Carpathian mountains, provide the subject matter for the two short features which make up The Stone Wedding. According to Derek Elley, in International Film Guide, “The first, Fefeleaga (directed by Mircea Veroiu), tells of a still attractive young widow who is forced by the crippling circumstances of her life--eking out a living in the stone quarries--to watch her children die.... The last to go is her young daughter, on the brink of womanhood; when she dies, the proud widow sells her only horse to buy a wedding dress to embalm her body. Veroiu tells the story in chiefly visual terms, explaining little and planning his static set-ups with geometric precision.... The second story, At a Wedding (directed by Dan Pita) is lighter in tone and totally different stylistically, but was shot in the same region using several locations of Fefeleaga. A girl is to be married against her will to a local rich man; at the wedding feast she meets and elopes with a traveling musician providing the entertainment. Though more animated than Fefeleaga, the second episode is similarly elliptical and visually atmospheric, and evokes Carpathian life with sly touches of (basically tough) humor.”