Two short stories by the Rumanian writer IonAgarbiceanu, dealing with peasant life and traditions in the Carpathian mountains, provide the subjectmatter for the two short features which make up The Stone Wedding. According to Derek Elley, inInternational Film Guide, "The first, Fefeleaga (directed by Mircea Veroiu), tells of a still attractive youngwidow who is forced by the crippling circumstances of her life-eking out a living in the stone quarries-towatch 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 in which to embalm the body. Veroiu tells thestory 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 willto a local rich man; at the wedding feast she meets and elopes with a traveling musician providing theentertainment. Though more animated than Fefeleaga, the second episode is similarly elliptical and visuallyatmospheric, and evokes Carpathian life with sly touches of (basically tough) humor."