由两位重复出现的人物串起来的五个故事：挖坟人Kapa和Pepe。在第一个故事中，导演和两位编剧作为人物出现。被暗杀后，他们的骨灰被这两个傻里傻气的挖坟人混在一起了。在另一个故事中，一位富人说服了一个穷人不要杀自己，结果却自杀了。在第三个故事中，乡村别墅里的人们沉思匈牙利的历史、革命和暴力……

冷战期间，卡德尔的特勤局开始了一场比以往任何时候都更危险的国家安全游戏。

石油公司鋪設油管，推土機迫近原住民聖山。年邁的爺爺來到環保青年的營地，開始講述古老的美洲創世傳說。盤古初開，萬物和平共存，但造物者夢裏出現了擁有四條命的郊狼。牠也想創造生命，用泥造了人，並賦予欲望，卻也帶來死亡，破壞了大地上的平衡。匈牙利導演亞倫高德取材美洲原住民神話，以史詩形式，由開天闢地說到歐洲殖民侵略，並從古人智慧，看到非常現代的關懷，提醒尊重大自然，眾生平等，生生不息，人類必須在萬物之間找到自己的位置。

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time right, which is out of joint, that is, to correct history, to save King Louis II, and prevent the Mohács Disaster. Pepe yields to the not too tender persuasion to enter upon the great journey through time, dies and revives, and they arrive at the battlefield of Mohács in time. Kapa films the events. The Turks win and cut off the king’s, Pepe’s, head, still the Hungarians dictate the peace treaty. Kapa and Pepe want to return, they fill the time machine up with water from the well, yet it won’t start. Even so Kapa and Pepe hover over Budapest and quarrel.