Most of her colleagues take Mária, the new teacher to be a communist party-worker, only Irma and the drawing teacher Zoli treat her kindly. Mária starts working with great enthusiasm, and her class learns to love her in a short time.

​A young doctor named Zoltán flees Budapest for his father’s rural estate after performing an illegal abortion on his lover that results in her death. While hiding in the countryside, he attempts to grapple with his guilt and the moral weight of his actions while reconnecting with his estranged family. His isolation is interrupted by a burgeoning relationship with a local woman, Mira, which forces him to choose between permanent escape or facing legal and ethical accountability.

He travels the country as a fire inspector. He arrives in the small town for a week-long visit, where he meets his old friend József Máté. Máté is a manager, proud of his achievements and spoiling his beautiful young wife Panni. But she's tired of the dollhouse and wants to work, but her husband won't let her. Tired and disillusioned, Palotas immediately senses and understands his wife's dullness and boredom, and encourages Panni to leave her husband...

Corporal Molnár (Imre Sinkovits) decides that war has ended for him and makes his getaway from his corps with all their money hidden in empty grenades. He tries to hide in a castle which is guarded by the derisive groom Albert (Tamás Major). Unfortunately the hideaway is full of other fugitive soldiers so he takes command and risks his and his comrades lives in dangerous adventures - they are acting as an official corps, saving a soviet soldier, fighting with Arrow-cross detachments. Things are going well but in the end they are getting into soviet captivity where they are organizing a partisan commando... The sentence from this movie "The Russians are in the larder" has become an adage in Hungarian language until Today.