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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.

Muddy, rain-soaked Hungarian plains swallow a decaying village where residents wait for a promised fortune that never arrives. This hypnotic long take of communal stagnation turns a slow passage of time into a heavy, visceral experience.

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