This film is a tribute to a humiliated and destroyed nation. "As Long as the Grass Grows" is an alternative, ancient and humble creation story, where man is not the crown of the creation, but the weakest of all creatures. The film takes us back to the beginning of time, where Old Man begins to create the world out of a handful of mud. Everything he creates is new and nameless, and affects the rest of the world. Even feelings and desires are unknown and when they emerge, the world becomes more and more complicated.
Drop dead please! Following the sudden death of a mysterious engine driver in his sixties, the Wife, the Lover, her illegitimate Daughter and an increasing number of shady characters from his spurious past want to know the true identity of the man they loved. They are dying to know which of them was really loved by him, and where he has hidden the fantastic fruit of his double life. In their deadly struggle, our heroes find themselves in the center of a satirical crime comedy, the sinful roots of which stretch back to the eighties, the closing decade of the socialist era.
Un inconformista noble del siglo XIX lucha para liberar su país de un imperio extranjero. Pero los Habsburgo de Austria, no son el único oponente que el Conde Szechenyi tendrá que combatir. Luchando contra el destino, la historia y el amor, su vida privada se verá inseparablemente mezclada con el desorden público de una era cambiante. Entonces empezará a aprender que su mayor oponente es su propio corazón.
