The story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of the hell that was the Holocaust. Their love overcomes all obstacles in its path, including death – when it eventually comes. Set in the Swedish rehabilitation camps during the autumn and winter of 1945.

In 1911, natural gas is discovered in Transylvania, and György Bernády, the ambitious mayor of Marosvásárhely, dreams big: a domestic innovation modeled on the Western model. His enthusiasm takes him all the way to America. But is the Hungarian terrain ready for any kind of innovation?