Erika Ozsda

Downbeat, documentary-style examination of a teenager facing a succession of disappointments.

Sanyi is the driver of a co-op bus and lives in tenancy with his wife and son. In order to get along he buys the auctioned truck of the co-op and becomes a transportation entrepreneur. First everything goes well, they start a construction.

The sixteen year old Bea is on her way home from her sports class when a foreign long- vehicle stops by her and she is asked the way. A shove, the banging of the door, and the long-vehicle pulls away with its victim towards the South. Beas abductors rape her and sell her as a prostitute. She tries to escape, keeps leaving marks behind, hoping that her beloved father, Sándor, will find her.

The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable.

The unskilled, jack-of-all-trades András and his wife, Éva are put in jail for serial work-place thefts, -committed in order to try to ensure a normal living standard for his family - and for aggravated assault committed for self-defence, respectively. Their two small children are put in state care, then given to foster parents. András, still in prison, commits everything to help the released Éva get hold of an apartment and get their children back so that when he will have served his term the family could be together again.

Goat is sent to a reform school in Satcha for 13 months. He has to fight his way up the adolescent hierarchy from the very first days. His peers force him to sneak out with them one night into town, where he is tied to a bench. There he meets the pretty Aggie, with whom he falls in love. After a disturbance at the institute, a new director is appointed, the ambitious and ambitious Lehota, whose militaristic approach transforms not only the institute but also the life of the town. Nothing can stop the escalating violence, or Lehota's career...