Gyöngyi Szabó

A young boy feels lost in the world. He only finds solace in his imagination. But it’s getting harder to escape from reality.

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.

A young boy feels lost in the world. He only finds solace in his imagination. But it’s getting harder to escape from reality.

Éva, an eleven-year-old girl with the class plays a war of numbers. She wanders away from his peers and gets lost, as she is chased by a shadow. She finds refuge in an old medieval church in the middle of the forest.

Two orphaned brothers from a marginalised segment of society have to face separation.