A coming-of-age story set in the contemporary Hungarian countryside, where teenager soloist Dávid decides to stand up for Nóri, 13, a cellist in their youth orchestra who is having a suspiciously close relationship with their 60-year-old conductor. While looking for the truth, Dávid's life soon starts to spiral out of control as he faces tough decisions and the adult society's negligence.
Budapest, Hungría, Navidad de 1957. El Estado, inseguro después del fracaso de la revolución de 1956 y sometido cada vez más a la influencia de una renovada atmósfera estalinista, ha decretado que todos los oficiales de seguridad deben pasar un examen para verificar su lealtad. Pero para ser realmente efectivo en un mundo sombrío donde reinan la sospecha y los secretos, los sujetos deben ignorar que están siendo probados.
1958, Budapest. Gerencsér is a skilled worker at the abattoir, his wife left in 1956. They falls in love with the beautiful Mrs. Hász at the personnel management department, but they only date secretly because of a former relationship of Mária. They go on holiday and travel to the Mátra, just the two of them.
Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
