Dropped into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing is quite what it seems. One event leads to something else, people appear in one situation and reappear in another and by the end the lives of 22 people intersect in unpredictable ways during a 90-minute period on one magical night in the city they share.

一位非洲足球运动员比赛受贿犯法，踏上了逃亡的道路，来到了匈牙利一个遥远的小镇上，躲避追捕。然而他很快就意识到在这个远离城市的平原深处，乡间生活已荡然无存，废弃的农场早已被犯罪团伙占领，奴隶制在这里再次上演，他必须为了自己的自由和未来而斗争。

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.

片中一位名叫莫娜的女人为了夺回自己女儿的监护权，向社工讲述了自己的故事，但实际上这些故事是女主人公为了减轻生活的痛苦而营造的幻想。 2006年导演作品《白手掌》（Fehér tenyér）被匈牙利选送角逐奥斯卡最佳外语片，没有获得提名，《熟练的行家》又被匈牙利选送为2011年第83届奥斯卡最佳外语片竞争作品。