1944年深秋的布达佩斯还在法西斯分子统治下。反法西斯主义者卡塔和比罗·亚诺什要执行一项奇特的任务。卡塔的丈夫被捕，一个接头地点也被破坏，组织上让她和素不相识的老地下工编导亚诺什假扮成夫妻，搬到布达佩斯郊外一座小房子居住，开展地下工作。亚诺什内向且自我封闭，对任何人都不信任，起初对卡塔也很冷淡。两个人之间经常产生矛盾和冲突。卡塔积极努力，终于化解了亚诺什心中的不信任，他们之间建立起相互信任。时间推移，他们之间产生了爱情。

2007 film directed by Gyula Maár

1988 film by István Szabó

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.

The sad tale of a proletarian malcontent ensconced in a monstrously depressing housing project who—even less effectually than the heroes of Bald-Dog Rock—attempts to change his life. Purchasing a power drill and slinging it across his shoulder like the anti-hero of a spaghetti western, he turns entrepreneur, boring holes in his neighbors’ walls so that they can hang mirrors or pictures.