安布鲁斯年过三十，是一名医生，他思索着他的过往人生不过是一场政治设计，他也许永远也成为不了出色的职业医生。一次偶然，他目睹了一位耄耋之年的教授拯救了一位病人，而他此前还质疑过这位老教授的资质。他不由地开始反思自身。之后，老教授的垮台更使他陷入了精神危机。这时，老父亲病危，安布鲁斯不得不回家探望，在经历了多重思想震荡后，他回到家乡重新审视与家人、朋友的关系。本片是杨索的第二部作品，他标志性的长镜头调度还未成气候，但也能窥见他的诗意风格雏形。

In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that will unexpectedly alter their lives forever.

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.

1963 film by László Ranódy

The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.

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...

The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himself, who, while sitting in his customary café, suddenly realises that he has hallucinations. The psychologist reassures him that all this is merely repression. The symptoms, however, appear again. Soon it turns out that the author has a brain tumour. Professor Pötzl in Vienna suggests operation right away. The intervention, through which he is awake, is carried out in a Stockholm clinic.