Martin is faced with a decision at work: either sign an investment project under pressure from his bosses, thereby redeeming his job opportunity in Germany, or confront and jeopardize everything he has achieved so far. The world holds up a mirror to him at every turn: the indifference of passersby, the dissatisfaction of his wife, the undeserved admiration of his little son... For him, who once risked his life for his country, who once saw more clearly what is wrong and what is right...

Based on Sándor Márai's novel, the films tells the story of two young cadets, closest friends once - two old men full of suspicion, bitterness and with a guilty conscience now, forty years later. They have not met since they were young - one of them was serving in the army in the tropics, the other was just sitting in the library watching the shutters in his castle after the army days. But now they meet again, it is time to showdown.