Set during a turbulent era of disquiet fear persecution and terror which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919 after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy leader of the nationalist far right movement becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal...