Péter Rutkai

The boy may be thirteen or fourteen years old. His parents divorced or lost each other somewhere in time. The boy stayed with his mother, who knows why. The days pass the same for both of them. Silent togetherness...

Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.