- Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
- The orphan Juli and her grandparents, the remnants of the former emigrant family, return home from the Soviet Union at the end of the 1940s. Her aunt, prison director Magda, attempts to bring up the resolutely stubborn teenager to have blind faith in communism. She does not succeed. Juli remembers the past as her sculptor father was arrested by the KGB and her mother died. The teenager unconsciously understands that people have started to be arrested even in Hungary and the system of Soviet terror is back in operation. Juli matures into an independent woman as she researches memories of her parents. In this, only Magda's brother, Janos, is any help. She sees her father in Janos.—from Cannes Festival (Canon y mus)
- Budapest in the late 1940s: Juli, a teenage orphan, returns to Hungary from the Soviet Union, where she lived in exile with her parents. Her foster mother Magda, a Communist Party functionary, takes in Juli and her sick adoptive grandfather when they arrive in Budapest. Juli is a rebellious girl and repeatedly comes into conflict with Magda's futile efforts to assert her authority. Despite the relatively good life she is offered, Juli cannot resign herself to living with Magda. Juli, whose parents were victims of Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union, resents Magda's loyalty to the line. Juli skips school and spends her days at the cinema. She develops a relationship with Janos, an older man who reminds her of her father. The visits to the cinema and the free-spirited Janos help Juli escape from her oppressive world. Over the years, as Juli gains self-confidence and learns more about her past, Madga continues to lose personality by bowing to party pressure. Juli finally separates from Magda and moves in with Janos and his disabled son Andras.
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