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In 1911, natural gas is discovered in Transylvania, and György Bernády, the ambitious mayor of Marosvásárhely, dreams big: a domestic innovation modeled on the Western model. His enthusiasm takes him all the way to America. But is the Hungarian terrain ready for any kind of innovation?
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Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.