The death of tax-collector Denes Witman leaves his close relatives unmoved. His selfish widow cares little about her two fatherless adolescent sons. With the father’s death, the family is left without rules: the Witman boys have to create their own. Desperately searching for a meaning in their lives, they discover a young woman in an old brothel and believe they have found what they were looking for. At first the young woman is kind to them, but quickly she becomes dissatisfied with her visitors and will only let them in if they bring her gifts. The boys find jewelery in a glass cabinet in their mother’s bedroom. They are prepared to do anything in order to get the jewels...even if it means killing their mother.

"I wanted to describe one possible way leading to matricide, through the lack of relationships, mixing reality and a violent imaginary world together," says director Janos Szasz of the film he has made of a novel by the Hungarian author Geza Csath. "Showing violence itself was not my purpose," . "I look for a peculiar rhythm, colours close to monochromy precisely for the audience to watch, participate, and understand the images ’from inside’. In that sense I feel very close to Bergman and Tarkovski’s films: they represent my ideal of film."