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The film tells the story of a year in the life of a small town in Eastern Hungary, Tiszavasvár, in the period leading up to the 2024 local elections. Through the personal stories of five characters, it connects the changes that have taken place since the privatisation of the Alkaloida chemical factory, once the pride of the town, in the 1990s, with the current state of affairs in Hungary.
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HU

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.

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While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.