The young Hungarian Judith and her boyfriend Taddek try to flee to the West after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. The young woman arrives in Austria, the man is deprived of freedom and, as one can assume, also of his life. Twenty years later, Judith leads a comfortable life as a teacher in a small Austrian town. She lives in a large, middle-class house with the housekeeper Tetta and her father-in-law. Suddenly and completely unexpectedly, Taddek, believed dead, reappears and demands the love that fate and Judith owed him. The unexplained and the unspoken create an irresolvable conflict.