Uma jovem escritora, lutando pelo seu sucesso, contrata uma mulher idosa chamada Emerenc para ser sua empregada. Apenas um drama na vida da escritora faz com que Emerenc revele o seu passado traumático -- um passado que lança luz sobre o seu comportamento peculiar.
Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son. Joël hangs on, begs, threatens. One day, he kidnaps the little boy.
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life.
