Portugál

Taking place in an average Hungarian village of our time, the main site of the story is the pub, where the characters, representative of the settlement, turn up several times a day. Always the same scenes take place, and the innkeeper called Lajos keeps invariably saying the same thing to his lively, clear-minded and determined daughter: to accept the advances of ex-policeman Retek. Yet Masni resists. Oddly enough, a stranger appears in the pub who says that he is a writer and on his way to Portugal, wanting to take a few days' rest here. Now Masni believes to have found the man who suits her, but Bece's wife turns up in a luxury car, and though unable to take her husband back home, she makes him run away. Masni is left alone with her life's first great disappointment. (MNFA)