The Ark of Nino

Three people. One city. One long night. After being laid off from his job, Alexander, in his mid-forties, decides to leave everything behind and set off for the Adriatic in his self-built caravan. Anna, a cigarette advertising girl, has a few hours to get money for her boyfriend, who needs a bribe to play at a party. Bandit, who works as an electrician in a factory, is electrocuted during his work this evening. Our characters set off alone into the night, but their paths cross several times before they come together at the end of the film.

In a hidden lot behind Pest’s tenements, loner Légiós has carved out a private refuge in his trailer and will do anything to keep the outside chaos at bay. When wealthy businessman Imre rolls up in his 1968 Ford Mustang seeking a secure spot, the two men launch a fierce duel, each escalating tactics to outwit the other and claim the coveted, corrugated-roof parking space.

Mate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here before selling them on the market. The stock comprising of several thousands of boxes is guarded by a Chinese man, Wu, who also lives in the storage. During this forced association a strange friendship begins between the two lonely men, even though Wu is told by his boss to prevent the sale of the storage under all circumstances. The boss is also giving enticing promises to Wu to help him realize his dream: go back to China and create his own football team. The situation is further complicated by the pizza girl, who is equally liked by both men and stirs up the strange life of the storage.

Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.

1990. The regime change reached the small village of Borsod. The people are unemployed and get drunk in the pub day after day. Csornai, the former potentate, wants to be mayor, so he lobbies. Polyak, a sullen, philandering lathe operator in his mid-forties, lives with his mother. He has stolen his father's lathe, which he himself has worked on for decades since his beloved father's death, from the factory that was shut down. An American tourist arrives in the village with a metal detector and begins investigating the border. It turns out that his father's plane crashed nearby at the end of the war, and he wants to find it. The pub is immediately in an uproar and the investigation begins. They find the grave of the Americans, but not everyone is there. Csornai wants to make a big deal of it, so he starts investigating. But the story takes an interesting turn, and suddenly the American's cherished...