sentences:  The delay period goes for a month, and Vitoria dreams one night that Nechifor travels horse riding, to sunset, a stretch of water and believing he is dead.After hints been given by the priest Dănilă and with the elder Maranda, Vitoria decides to pray to Saint Mary and to hold black-fasting for twenty Fridays in a row hoping that Nechifor will eventually return.After Gheorghiță returns home around the winter holidays, Vitoria goes to the Bistrița Monastery to pray to the wonder-doers icon of Saint Ana and request a spiritual advice, then leaves to Piatra Neamț to announce that his husband is missing.