Librarian Géza Kriston is fired from his job after 20 years of work, but he refuses to leave the library building and gets into a fight with the people carrying out the demolition. After the fight, he ends up in police custody, where he meets Sándor Tököli, the Roma pickpocket, who sniffs out the severance pay from the strange librarian in his pocket.

A young man hiking deep in the woods finds a female corpse manipulated in a bizarre manner. Shocked by the discovery, the man realizes that he is not alone on the scene. The murderer starts hunting him in order to protect his identity.