Budapest 2009. This creative documentary tells the stories of Kazmir, Sabina, Balint and Istvan. Their lives could not be more different:
While Kazmir lives together with his wife in a self-built hut in the forest and struggles desperately to return to society, thirteen-year-old Balint and his affluent family live on a hill looking down onto the tree tops. The fenced-off luxury residential complex stands like a fortress on the outskirts of Budapest. Every day Balint is driven to school in the family’s Porsche. The gifted young boy is not troubled by material concerns – however, he is afraid not to live up to his father’s expectations...
The parents of eighteen-year-old Sabina also have hopes for their daughter’s success. Her mother Magda would have loved to have been a violinist, but now works night after night at the conveyer belt in a factory. They are a Romany family of four and actually live very happily in their studio flat, which is much too small for them, in the Eighth district. However, the City Council is planning a luxury redevelopment of the former Romany quarter. As the wrecking balls move closer, Sabina prepares for her final exam with her violin teacher. He will decide whether she has a future as a professional musician...
Until recently, 54-year-old Istvan had not thought much about his future. For ten years now, the homeless man has been living in a railway carriage on the siding of Budapest's Western Railway Station. When a social worker attaches a notice advertising a job vacancy to the compartment doors, Istvan plucks up the courage and applies. After all, this is perhaps his last chance to make it back into a regular way of life...