Lacramioara Stoenescu is known for her novels about and with political prisoners, she herself being expelled from school at the age of 10, being considered, like her father, "enemy of the people".
The memories of the Praetor are the only antidote to resist the brutal investigations during the arrest and detention. Narrated in the first person, they are continued by Lacramioara Stoenescu until the day of his funeral. Even the love letters between Pretor, a poor student, future lawyer and judge, and Melania Divari, his future wife, are sealed in the masonry of the tomb. The novel remains with its wealth of characters, with the family ties preserved between generations, with the Balkan atmosphere of native customs or the new ones, brought by the ethnic communities - Turks, Greeks, Serbs, Albanians - in the city on the Danube.
The history of the city is also the history of people and houses. Just like them, the houses keep the memory of the war years, the love stories, the rainy days when the provincial streets were flooded and people used to go by boat, the rose gardens and the peace of the quiet afternoons when you say, passing on, here, on Gradinitei street no. 5, sat the Praetor.