 "Sub flamura roșie" expands on the Mischianu saga, recounting events set to the backdrop of the general strike of 1920.As argued by Lovinescu, there is "visible progress", with almost no irony discernable in the narrator's voice.In the main plot, Vasile Stancu, the labor organizer and anticapitalist orator, is shot at by an erstwhile socialist admirer, Firina, whom Vasile has raped.