Tamás K. Kovács

A coin always has two sides... Károly and Zsolt are best friends, rivals, and mortal enemies at the same time- so they're inseparable parts of each other's lives. After graduating from college, they grow apart but after more than two decades, their paths are crossing once again. The jobless and desperate Zsolt appears on the doorstep of Károly, who is struggling with his mid-life crisis. Their unexpected reunion sets up a chain of events that could potentially destroy not just them but everything the two men hold dear.

The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the imperial soldiers. Two priests from the village are arrested overnight for reading the Hungarian Declaration of Independence. Although the Austrian soldiers enjoy their power, they are unable to identify with the repression. The purpose of the trial of a military imprisonment court is to obtain a confession, to prove that a violation of sovereignty has been committed.