Erika's father
It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.
인종차별적 비방에 격분한 마티아스는 동료를 때려눕히고 야반도주한다. 고향에 돌아온 그는 옛 연인 칠러와 재회하는데, 칠러가 일하는 빵 공장은 최저임금으로 주민 고용이 어려워지자 외국인 노동자를 데려오기 시작한다. 어느새 작은 마을은 적대감과 분열로 들썩거린다.
Dr. Karotúr Gyula
As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit.
János
이 이야기는 루마니아 혁명의 혼란 속에서 1989년에 시작된다. 13살 소녀 줄리가 트란실바니아의 광산촌 발란에서 사라진다. 22년 후, 그녀의 형제 페터는 브라소프시에서 경찰로서 인신매매 사건을 조사하고 있다. 그가 구하는 모든 소녀에서 그의 여동생을 본다. 어느 날 고향인 발란에서 죽은 소녀의 시신이 얼려진 채로 발견되었다는 것을 알게 된다. 여동생의 시체일 수도 있다는 생각에 발란으로 돌아와 어린 시절부터 자신을 괴롭혔던 과거의 그림자를 마주해야 한다.
Ion Ion
In August 1983, architect Dinu Neagu together with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are on a beach of nudists near an industrial area. He is arrested and taken to Bucharest police office, where he is imprisoned in a cell together with Vali, a collaborator of the Security Service.
Lucian
Trying to find their luck, husband and wife, Lucian and Andra start a new business by managing a guesthouse hidden somewhere deep in the mountains.
Nelu
NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN…
