Focus Country - Hungary. Zoltán Fábri Retrospective. Requiem

Synopsis

The story follows a woman who, while assisting her doctor husband, meets a young patient with a peculiar manner of eating that reminds her of her first husband. She discovers the young man was actually her former husband's cellmate before he died in prison years earlier. The film uses shifting temporal planes to recount their tragic love story set against the stifling political atmosphere of the 1950s.